Terrie
Feminine
Terrie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 19,729 girls against 339 boys since 1880.
Terrie is the -ie member of a four-spelling family, all resting on Teresa — a name whose origin four centuries of scholarship have failed to establish.
How old is the name Terrie?
Terrie first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Terrie alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 17,000 people named Terrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Terrie most popular?
Terrie peaked in 1960, reaching #269 nationally. See the whole 1960 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Teresa to Terrie
The story of Terrie
Teresa was a Spanish and Portuguese name of limited range until a sixteenth-century Carmelite reformer from Ávila made it one of the most-given names in the Catholic world. English-speaking countries took it up much later, generally as Theresa, and the clippings followed in the twentieth century — written four ways at once: Terri, Terry, Teri and Terrie. This spelling peaked in the mid-1960s.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Teresa's origin is genuinely unestablished. The two most-repeated suggestions — the Greek theros, 'summer', and the island of Therasia near Santorini — are both reconstructions working backwards from the sound. The name appears first in Spain and Portugal, and that is where the trail both begins and stops.
How the name formed
- Teresa
- Theresa
- Terrie
Related forms: Teresa · Thérèse · Terri · Terry
Pronouncing Terrie
TAIR-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All four spellings are said identically.
Nicknames for Terrie
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
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 19601,110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #269reached in 1960
- Change vs 2018
- 0.0%5 in 2022, 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.
Terrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Teresa in Spanish — related form
- Thérèse in French — related form
- Terri in English — spelling variant
- Terry in English — spelling variant
Terries among us
people named Terrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Terrie has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Teresa behind it is one of the most widely used women's names in the Catholic world.
- The -ie ending reads warmer than -i or -y without changing the sound.
- Bright and easy in English, Spanish and Italian mouths alike.
- Four spellings were current at once, so it is written wrongly more often than rightly.
- Terry is also a common man's name, which makes the sound unisex whatever the spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Terries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 17,000 people named Terrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Terrie in 2025?
- Terrie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Terrie with classmates?
- Terrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with T, all years combined.
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