Terri

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Terri: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Terri: Recorded since 1966, it reached #204 in 1997, and it stood at #5,687 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#204highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#273
1997	#355
1998	#452
1999	#573
2000	#565
2001	#523
2002	#822
2003	#781
2004	#985
2005	#1343
2006	#1325
2007	#1102
2008	#1584
2009	#2326
2010	#3156
2011	#2893
2012	#3681
2013	#3536
2014	#4003
2015	#4736
2016	#5785
2018	#4684
2019	#4001
2021	#5581
2022	#3970
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 25 of the 46 years from 1966 to 2011.

In 2011: #937 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2893 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1966–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #380 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2006
Highest recorded position: #204 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2006).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #5687 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Terri appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 26 ranked years and 681 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1966.

Terri across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Terri's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#380 (1966)	#279 (1996)	#937 (2011)	25 of 46	143 (1966–2011)	11 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#273 (1996)	#273 (1996)	#5687 (2023)	26 of 28	681 (1996–2023)	136 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#204 (1997)	#204 (1997)	#384 (2006)	3 of 10	16 (1997–2006)	8 (1997)

Terri by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Terri in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	343	4 of 10	86
2000sbusiest	279	10 of 10	28
2010s	48	9 of 10	5
2020s	11	3 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births fell by 43, from 136 to 93.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Terri appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1966 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #204 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Terri's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1102	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#985	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#781	34	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#822	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#523	54	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#565	48	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#573	48	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#452	66	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#355	93	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#273	136	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#259	5	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#204	8	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#279	11	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#451	4	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#415	5	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	9	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	6	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	6	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#332	8	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#442	4	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	7	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#306	10	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	6	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	6	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1966 and 2023, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #204, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 136 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 31 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bartlomiej · #202, 47y
Maebh · #201, 46y
Viola · #211, 40y
Anas · #196, 42y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Humphrey · #204, 43y
Macdara · #204, 32y
Pearl · #204, 53y
Sharan · #204, 16y

Terri was ranked #204 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Terri and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Terri without appearing here.

Terri moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 1988 they stood at #442 and #381 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1989 that had become #332 and #503.
Lynette Compare
In 1986 they stood at #356 and #356 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1987 that had become #348 and #488.
Belinda Compare
In 1997 they stood at #440 and #363 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #380 and #498.
Janice Compare
In 1997 they stood at #440 and #440 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #380 and #498.

Moved ahead of Terri

Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Hunter Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4050 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2966.
Maren Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2927.

Moved the opposite way to Terri

Aisling Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 while Aisling went from #100 to #41.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 while Alexandra went from #288 to #97.
Anna Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 while Anna went from #36 to #18.
Caoimhe Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 while Caoimhe went from #380 to #14.

Moved the same way as Terri

Alma Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 and Alma from #310 to #937.
Audrey Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 and Audrey from #63 to #695.
Camilla Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 and Camilla from #236 to #612.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1966 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Terri went from #380 to #937 and Deirdre from #7 to #695.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1966 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #204 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Terri

Terri at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Terri across 3 official records

Terri by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Terri appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Terri at a glance

Terri across 3 official records

Terri by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Terri appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Terri

Terri and the names beside it

Terri moved ahead of

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