Terrence

maleStatistical record

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

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

Terrence: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 25 years, its highest recorded position is #54, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#54highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Terrence's record

Absent from every published list for 25 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1458
1997	#964
1998	#1110
1999	#1199
2000	#2142
2001	#1595
2002	#1519
2003	#1962
2004	#1410
2005	#1851
2006	#2282
2007	#2741
2008	#2507
2009	#1649
2010	#1289
2011	#1788
2012	#1962
2013	#2403
2014	#2248
2015	#3004
2016	#2335
2017	#2324
2018	#4749
2019	#3937
2020	#3334
2021	#3451
2022	#2755
2023	#4107
2024	#2921

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2009: #701 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1649 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #54 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1952–1964
Highest recorded position: #54 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1952 (recorded 1952–1964).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2921 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Terrence appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 247 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1952.

Terrence 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.

Terrence'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
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#964 (1997)	#2921 (2024)	29 of 29	247 (1996–2024)	19 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#323 (1990)	#323 (1990)	#701 (2009)	2 of 20	6 (1990–2009)	3 (1990)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#54 (1952)	#54 (1952)	#97 (1964)	13 of 13	1,448 (1952–1964)	158 (1952)

Terrence by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Terrence in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	46	4 of 10	12
2000s	83	10 of 10	8
2010sbusiest	90	10 of 10	9
2020s	28	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

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

Terrence 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 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #54 in New South Wales, Australia in 1954.

Terrence'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1289	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
1964	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	61	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	69	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	73	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	male	#72	109	Insufficient	Not yet available
1960	New South Wales, Australia	male	#74	106	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	male	#70	118	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	male	#71	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	male	#69	112	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#58	136	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	male	#61	124	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#54	144	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	male	#58	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#54	158	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
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 1952 and 2024, ranked in 43 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #54, first reached in 1952.

It held a top-100 place in 13 years, 13 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 158 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1952.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 25 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1990, and 44 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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Terry · #49, 72y

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.

Aoibhinn · #56, 43y
Tanja · #60, 46y
Agnieszka · #64, 47y
Jocelyn · #69, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Pawel · #54, 65y
Frederick · #55, 67y
Hugh · #53, 64y
Krzysztof · #53, 70y

Terrence was ranked #54 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1952. 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.

Terrence 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 Terrence without appearing here.

Terrence moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1519 and #3225.
Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #4270.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Terrence

Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2324 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #1786.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #1461.
Gustav Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2324 and #2512 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2259.
Matheo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2324 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2693.

Moved the opposite way to Terrence

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Terrence

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Terrence went from #1458 to #2921 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #54 in New South Wales, Australia in 1954. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Terrence

Terrence at a glance

What stands out in Terrence's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Terrence across 3 official records

Terrence by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Terrence appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Terrence at a glance

What stands out in Terrence's record

Terrence across 3 official records

Terrence by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Terrence appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Terrence

Terrence and the names beside it

Terrence moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Terrence

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