How Many People Are Named Terrie?

16,793

people named Terrie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 20,352 people in the US has this name

Based on 20,068 babies named Terrie in Social Security records from 1918 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,786

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#961

See the top 100

Peak Year

1961

1,133 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: TER-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Either a strictly feminine form of TERRY (1) or a diminutive of THERESA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Terrie in English. Counting Terrie and these spellings together, about 182,657 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
98.4%
Male
1.6%

Of the babies given the name Terrie, 98.4% were girls and 1.6% were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Terrie alive today is about 63 years old, and 70% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 58 and 69 in 2025.

Under 30 197
1.2%
30 to 59 4,771
28.4%
60 and over 11,825
70.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Terrie first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 1961, to 1,133 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2022

🏆 Rank History

Terrie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #269, in 1960.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#269 (1960)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#340 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Terrie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Terrie were born in California than in any other state: about 1,726 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Terrie was given 2.5 times as often in Utah, 1.9 times in Idaho and 1.9 times in Oklahoma.

California 1,726
Texas 1,318
Ohio 855
Michigan 845
Illinois 607
Georgia 578
Pennsylvania 561
North Carolina 525
Florida 468
New York 462
Missouri 422
Tennessee 401
Louisiana 394
Indiana 389
Virginia 350
Alabama 346
Washington 340
Oklahoma 313
South Carolina 291
Kentucky 261
Maryland 251
Arkansas 251
Wisconsin 218
Mississippi 214
Oregon 210
Utah 209
Colorado 209
Iowa 182
Minnesota 165
Kansas 150
West Virginia 148
New Jersey 108
Arizona 107
Idaho 87
Massachusetts 78
Nebraska 75
District of Columbia 66
Montana 49
New Mexico 49
Maine 43
Hawaii 22
Connecticut 15
Delaware 10
North Dakota 8
Nevada 6
Wyoming 6
Rhode Island 5

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