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The name Terry is a diminutive form of Terence. The table below indicates the number of times the name Terry 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 Terry**
Use of the Name Terry for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
415,600	260,278	40,816	8,796	3,640	1,308	646

The table below indicates the number of times the name Terry has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. 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 Terry**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	632	10
1881
1882	828	7
1883	639	10
1884	653	10
1885	691	9
1886	508	14
1887	438	16
1888	525	15
1889	717	9
1890	598	12
1891
1892	635	12
1893	826	8
1894	623	12
1895	606	13
1896	437	21
1897	550	15
1898	605	14
1899	850	8
1900	478	24
1901	531	15
1902	519	18
1903	522	18
1904	535	18
1905	634	15
1906	704	13
1907	556	20
1908	538	23
1909	500	27
1910	519	30
1911	562	30
1912	581	49
1913	521	68
1914	660	60	984	37
1915	550	105
1916	630	87
1917	619	92
1918	617	101	986	54
1919	622	95	963	55
1920	513	142
1921	566	125	752	95
1922	554	131	738	98
1923	529	133	752	94
1924	530	143	690	116
1925	436	189	592	149
1926	470	163	592	144
1927	452	183	555	163
1928	411	213	592	142
1929	388	223	631	120
1930	320	297	554	152
1931	322	288	608	119
1932	259	434	537	148
1933	204	571	529	145
1934	182	720	540	145
1935	154	958	455	197
1936	126	1,291	452	199
1937	112	1,685	426	230
1938	86	2,335	405	273
1939	83	2,448	369	315
1940	73	2,986	331	372
1941	64	3,616	306	447
1942	52	4,808	235	819
1943	49	5,717	217	921
1944	43	5,964	215	915
1945	33	6,841	204	950
1946	26	10,610	142	1,918
1947	26	12,712	135	2,287
1948	26	12,097	133	2,277
1949	28	11,413	115	2,791
1950	30	11,423	127	2,527
1951	30	12,142	115	3,031
1952	29	12,437	120	3,036
1953	30	13,248	116	3,375
1954	27	15,513	88	4,791
1955	28	15,547	83	5,343
1956	31	15,021	91	5,262
1957	33	15,606	92	5,258
1958	33	14,962	89	5,327
1959	33	14,533	95	5,217
1960	34	13,910	101	4,843
1961	32	13,158	108	4,357
1962	34	12,284	112	4,038
1963	32	12,464	123	3,520
1964	35	10,846	139	2,912
1965	40	9,094	174	2,019
1966	40	8,456	191	1,713
1967	42	7,672	201	1,594
1968	48	7,082	217	1,398
1969	52	6,422	241	1,243
1970	54	6,185	269	1,111
1971	56	5,852	286	985
1972	62	4,775	320	749
1973	65	4,378	342	638
1974	69	4,017	393	520
1975	67	3,972	410	491
1976	75	3,663	479	384
1977	83	3,440	556	315
1978	91	3,086	613	278
1979	96	3,037	588	308
1980	101	2,982	625	292
1981	105	2,813	728	228
1982	105	2,764	733	232
1983	110	2,465	754	216
1984	117	2,337	851	181
1985	119	2,369	890	180
1986	122	2,251
1987	133	2,101	935	176
1988	141	2,064
1989	151	2,002
1990	164	1,888
1991	180	1,743
1992	196	1,595
1993	213	1,427
1994	241	1,219
1995	245	1,174
1996	259	1,092
1997	269	1,044
1998	303	943
1999	315	903
2000	331	846
2001	342	800
2002	380	686
2003	393	662
2004	400	646
Totals:		415,600		94,975

During the last 125 years, parents have used Terry as a boy's name about 81% of the time and less frequently (about 18% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Terry appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 123 times during the last 125 years.

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