Terence Boy Name

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The name Terence is of Latin origin, and means polished or tender. The table below indicates the number of times the name Terence has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Terence**
Use of the Name Terence for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
31,423	25,231	8,775	1,677	543	177	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Terence has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Terence first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1885, which is the first year shown on the table. Terence last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 2003, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Terence**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1885	690	9
1886
1887
1888	749	9
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906	993	8
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921	830	69
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929	951	51
1930
1931	937	49
1932	734	73
1933	771	63
1934	763	66
1935	584	98
1936	551	108
1937	528	120
1938	518	126
1939	524	120
1940	500	136
1941	452	170
1942	430	205
1943	379	262
1944	412	212
1945	382	242
1946	349	347
1947	327	435
1948	334	405
1949	342	385
1950	323	443
1951	337	405
1952	331	442
1953	323	477
1954	275	657
1955	250	768
1956	244	885
1957	267	791
1958	285	713
1959	288	742
1960	288	754
1961	287	723
1962	281	746
1963	269	808
1964	241	1,015
1965	270	766
1966	255	806
1967	262	768
1968	255	785
1969	303	624
1970	324	594
1971	341	539
1972	335	529
1973	340	501
1974	347	485
1975	352	482
1976	372	421
1977	380	425
1978	386	404
1979	405	382
1980	409	397
1981	402	411
1982	367	478
1983	346	525
1984	341	548
1985	342	551
1986	370	503
1987	394	481
1988	349	593
1989	385	570
1990	452	481
1991	477	425
1992	482	435
1993	544	357
1994	553	343
1995	604	289
1996	667	247
1997	838	172
1998	775	203
1999	732	223
2000	797	202
2001	945	164
2002
2003	923	177
Totals:		31,423		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Terence as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Terence appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 77 times during the last 125 years.

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