Terrence

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Terrence is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Guyana it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of )Terence.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 695◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.5K
  • AUAustralia1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈56K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
460 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 695 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

TerrenceLatin · English●616K records
เทอร์เรนซThai · Thai●7 records
ΤερενςGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Terence in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, ZA South Africa and 16 more.

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●

Variant spelling of )Terence.

Sources 3

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nordic Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Terrence is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#244137,15692K rec.—3Terence196
AU Australia#32857,48041K rec.—61Terence190
US United States#49351,383783K rec.1 in 6.5K51KTerrence460
CA Canada#55618,27616K rec.—1Terrence154
ZA South Africa#25212,49112K rec.——Terence105
PH Philippines—8,4386.5K rec.——Terence82
MY Malaysia#9375,2794.3K rec.——Terence93
SG Singapore#1793,5643.9K rec.——Terence136
NZ New Zealand#1773,2602.5K rec.—11Terence72
DE Germany—3,1863K rec.—1Terence91
FR France—2,815△21 rec.1 in 24K2.8K—8
IT Italy—2,1433.6K rec.—1Terrence51

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English616K85%
  • Spanish25K3%
  • 24K3%
  • French5K1%
  • German4.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English615,57785%
Spanish24,7483%
23,6663%
French4,9661%
German4,5161%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Terrence is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name38K records spelled Terrence7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Térrence

  • a separate given name25K records spelled Terrence2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Terrènce

  • Korean given name783 records spelled Terrence5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Terence, 테렌스, Térence, 테런스

  • Russian given name695 records spelled Terrence13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Terence, Теренс, Tarence, Terens, Тэрэнс

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.5K · 1955

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Terrence in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1886–2025
Yearrecords
188610
188810
18895
18909
18926
18937
18945
18956
18968
189711
18987
19005
19015
19077
19086
19095
19109
191111
191217
191318
191419
191526
191618
191725
191840
191930
192055
192160
192253
192361
192435
192568
192654
192763
192863
192972
193067
193172
193295
1933112
1934130
1935171
1936216
1937246
1938310
1939354
1940397
1941444
1942555
1943627
1944615
1945598
1946939
19471,100
19481,204
19491,177
19501,267
19511,171
19521,164
19531,217
19541,440
19551,497
19561,451
19571,304
19581,218
19591,104
19601,014
1961999
1962987
19631,013
19641,271
19651,029
19661,090
19671,065
19681,132
19691,218
19701,460
19711,239
19721,161
19731,166
19741,106
19751,149
19761,164
19771,152
19781,116
19791,192
19801,185
19811,077
19821,074
19831,008
1984993
1985942
1986939
19871,044
19881,241
19891,162
19901,055
19911,053
19921,055
1993915
1994802
1995652
1996623
1997581
1998491
1999497
2000480
2001431
2002397
2003440
2004354
2005403
2006467
2007449
2008420
2009456
2010426
2011364
2012340
2013329
2014329
2015279
2016272
2017263
2018217
2019184
2020173
2021148
2022151
2023134
2024116
2025107

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 132 years between 1886–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Terence Rattigan, b. 1911Steve McQueen, b. 1930Terrence McNally, b. 1938Terry Gilliam, b. 1940Terrence Malick, b. 1943Terrence Mann, b. 1951Terry Fox, b. 1958Terrence C. Carson, b. 1958Terrence Howard, b. 1969Terry Chen, b. 1975

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 56 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Terrence
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202051K#877
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.1K#48
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—312#2,185
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020207#877
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000205#84,968
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—203#5,426
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010168#106,096
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020165#113,026
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025107—
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)196461#97
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199255—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199150—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 487 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Terrence?
We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Terrence (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Terrence have the most bearers?
Terrence is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled terence.
Where is Terrence most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Terrence is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 695 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Terrence compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Terrence is the 244th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Terrence a male or female name?
Terrence is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Terrence mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of )Terence.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Terrence” — the 244th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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