Ter
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ter is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Aruba it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Eye dialect spelling of to.
- CACanada1 in 42K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 44K
- AUAustralia1 in 62K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈146 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 152 ●
- 1 in 2.3M ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
126K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Tėr in DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Eye dialect spelling of to.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,691 | 5K rec. | — | — | Ter | 44 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,966 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Ter | 39 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,856 | 2.5K rec. | — | 1 | Ter | 66 |
| IT Italy | — | 846 | 899 rec. | — | — | Ter | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 769 | 4.5K rec. | — | listed | Ter | 90 |
| CN China | — | 463 | 470 rec. | — | — | Ter | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 441 | 698 rec. | — | — | Ter | 30 |
| PH Philippines | — | 416 | 429 rec. | — | — | Ter | 13 |
| SG Singapore | — | 358 | 469 rec. | — | — | Ter | 42 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 350 | 13K rec. | — | 8 | Ter | 89 |
| IE Ireland | #618 | 339 | 359 rec. | — | — | Ter | 5 |
| US United States | — | 146 | 88K rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 198 | Ter | 152 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English94K74%
- Spanish9.2K7%
- 3.4K3%
- Hindi2.3K2%
- German1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 93,627 | 74% |
| Spanish | 9,226 | 7% |
| 3,417 | 3% | |
| Hindi | 2,272 | 2% |
| German | 1,511 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ter is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Ter (river)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, sl. Stamm, zu asl. terati"vertretiben".Ter | o- (slaw), omeir, an, ik. Ter|mer (x DAR), ne(r), ch, k, ske, (t)sch Ter-, ter: s. te und Dar- nedde. Terber: s. DERB.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In cdo, to adaanice Siam, good, excellent, to surpass, to praise, benevolent, intimate, virtuous, mild. good and evil will finally be recom
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Portuguese, to have
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In trk-pro, 1 hired labour 2 wages
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1933 | 3 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 3 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 7 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 4 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 12 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 13 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 10 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 19 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 13 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1966 | 17 |
| 1967 | 18 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 20 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 13 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 15 |
| 1983 | 18 |
| 1984 | 17 |
| 1985 | 16 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 16 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1992 | 23 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 39 |
| 1995 | 26 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 73 years between 1925–1999. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ángel Terb. 1922ESSpanish actor (1922-1987)
- Margarit Ter-Simonyanb. 1928AMArmenian musicologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 198 | #98,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 146 | #30,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 139 | #30,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #71,518 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 57 | #40,828 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 57 | #40,491 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #13,938 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 40 | #998 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 39 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 37 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 37 | #16,151 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 169 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ter?
- We estimate roughly 146 people bear Ter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Ter have the most bearers?
- Ter is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled ter.
- How common is Ter compared with other names?
- In Aruba, Ter is the 42nd most common given name of 50 given names recorded there.
- Is Ter a male or female name?
- Ter is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Ter mean?
- Recorded meaning: Eye dialect spelling of to.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ter” — the 42nd most common given name in Aruba. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.