Girls' name · peaked in 1960

Teri name popularity since 1925

44,164 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Teri. Half of them were born in 1963 or earlier, so the typical Teri is about 63 years old in 2026. Teri peaked in 1960 as the #171 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 44,164; Named Teri, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1960; #171 for girls that year
Typical age: About 63; Median birth year 1963
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #13,071 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.5% girls; 43,950 girls · 214 boys
Most popular in: Montana; 2.73× its national share

Peak year is the year Teri made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Teri births per year, 1925–2025

1960 was the biggest year for Teri both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1951 and 1956, Teri became 3.3× more common, from 1 in 4,080 baby girls to 1 in 1,250.
Steepest fall: Between 1986 and 1991, its share of baby girls fell by 57%, from 1 in 4,770 to 1 in 11,000.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Teri's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Teri.

Decade by decade

Babies named Teri in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	10	0	–
1930s	62	0	#3,396
1940s	1,617	7	#465
1950s	11,834	65	#218
1960s	16,763	59	#223
1970s	7,842	51	#316
1980s	3,951	32	#536
1990s	1,283	0	#1,521
2000s	426	0	#3,867
2010s	123	0	#8,401
2020–25	39	0	#13,071

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

52.9% of babies named Teri from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Teri is most popular

The index compares Teri's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Teri.

State	Index	Babies
Montana	2.73×	333
Nebraska	2.29×	672
Utah	2.18×	775
Iowa	2.17×	1,153
Oregon	2.10×	823

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Teri and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Teri (this page)	43,950	1960
Terri	146,103	1959
Terrie	19,713	1961

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Teri's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Teri.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Teri (1960).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data