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The name Terry is a diminutive form of Theresa. The table below indicates the number of times the name Terry has been given to baby girls 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 girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Terry**
Use of the Name Terry for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
94,975	61,328	1,505	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Terry has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Terry**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy 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	984	37	660	60
1915			550	105
1916			630	87
1917			619	92
1918	986	54	617	101
1919	963	55	622	95
1920			513	142
1921	752	95	566	125
1922	738	98	554	131
1923	752	94	529	133
1924	690	116	530	143
1925	592	149	436	189
1926	592	144	470	163
1927	555	163	452	183
1928	592	142	411	213
1929	631	120	388	223
1930	554	152	320	297
1931	608	119	322	288
1932	537	148	259	434
1933	529	145	204	571
1934	540	145	182	720
1935	455	197	154	958
1936	452	199	126	1,291
1937	426	230	112	1,685
1938	405	273	86	2,335
1939	369	315	83	2,448
1940	331	372	73	2,986
1941	306	447	64	3,616
1942	235	819	52	4,808
1943	217	921	49	5,717
1944	215	915	43	5,964
1945	204	950	33	6,841
1946	142	1,918	26	10,610
1947	135	2,287	26	12,712
1948	133	2,277	26	12,097
1949	115	2,791	28	11,413
1950	127	2,527	30	11,423
1951	115	3,031	30	12,142
1952	120	3,036	29	12,437
1953	116	3,375	30	13,248
1954	88	4,791	27	15,513
1955	83	5,343	28	15,547
1956	91	5,262	31	15,021
1957	92	5,258	33	15,606
1958	89	5,327	33	14,962
1959	95	5,217	33	14,533
1960	101	4,843	34	13,910
1961	108	4,357	32	13,158
1962	112	4,038	34	12,284
1963	123	3,520	32	12,464
1964	139	2,912	35	10,846
1965	174	2,019	40	9,094
1966	191	1,713	40	8,456
1967	201	1,594	42	7,672
1968	217	1,398	48	7,082
1969	241	1,243	52	6,422
1970	269	1,111	54	6,185
1971	286	985	56	5,852
1972	320	749	62	4,775
1973	342	638	65	4,378
1974	393	520	69	4,017
1975	410	491	67	3,972
1976	479	384	75	3,663
1977	556	315	83	3,440
1978	613	278	91	3,086
1979	588	308	96	3,037
1980	625	292	101	2,982
1981	728	228	105	2,813
1982	733	232	105	2,764
1983	754	216	110	2,465
1984	851	181	117	2,337
1985	890	180	119	2,369
1986			122	2,251
1987	935	176	133	2,101
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:		94,975		415,600

During the last 125 years, parents have used Terry as a girl's name about 18% of the time and more frequently (about 81% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Terry appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 69 times during the last 125 years.

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