Tarrance
Masculine · “Latin Terentius”
The model of pure Latin prose was written by a freed African slave. Terence was brought to Rome as a boy, educated by the senator who owned him, freed, and wrote six comedies that schools used as the standard text for the next eighteen hundred years.
How old is the name Tarrance?
Tarrance first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Tarrance alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 800 people named Tarrance are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tarrance most popular?
Tarrance peaked in 1973, reaching #1485 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 9,210 places below that high. See the whole 1973 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Terentius to Tarrance
The story of Tarrance
Publius Terentius Afer, whose third name means the African, was born around 190 BC, probably in Carthage, brought to Rome as a slave, educated by the senator Terentius Lucanus and freed by him, taking his patron's family name as freedmen did. He wrote six comedies before dying in his mid-twenties on a journey to Greece. Their Latin was so clean that they became the schoolroom text of the entire Latin-teaching tradition, read by Cicero, copied by monks, staged by convents in the tenth century and set for schoolboys into the nineteenth. One of his lines, that nothing human is foreign to me, has been quoted for two thousand years, usually without any idea of who wrote it or how he came to Rome.
Meaningscholars disagree
Latin Terentius, of unknown meaning
Terence is from the Roman family name Terentius, whose origin is not established; a connection to terere, to rub or thresh, is sometimes offered without support. Tarrance is an American respelling; the peak is 1973.
How the name formed
- Terentius
- Terence
- Tarrance
Related forms: Terrance · Terence · Toirdhealbhach
Pronouncing Tarrance
TAIR-uns
Two syllables, stress on the first. Terence, Terrance and Tarrance are homophones in American speech.
Nicknames for Tarrance
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1960
- Most boys named
- 198035 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1485reached in 1973
- Change vs 2019
- +20.0%6 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tarrance in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Terrance in English — spelling variant
- Terence in English — spelling variant
- Toirdhealbhach in Irish — related form
Tarrances among us
people named Tarrance are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Tarrance
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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What happens to a name after it peaks
The Raeford test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tarrance's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Raeford climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raeford's path sketches the road Tarrance is walking now.
Tarrance sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tarrance beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tarrance in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Terry and Rance are two short forms in different styles.
- The Roman playwright behind it is documented in detail.
- Two syllables with a firm opening.
- Terrance and Terence are both more common spellings.
- The family name's own meaning is unknown.
- The 1973 peak dates this form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tarrances are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Tarrance are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tarrance in 2025?
- Tarrance ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tarrance?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Tarrance — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tarrance with classmates?
- Tarrance will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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