Meaning & origin
How it developed
In English usage, Terrie is a diminutive of Teresa.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Terrie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20,068
- 339 boys · 19,729 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 1,133 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,114 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 15,787 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Terrie’s family of names
In English usage, Terrie is a diminutive of Teresa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Terrie
- Terrie E. MoffittAmerican psychologist and criminologist (born 1955)
- Terrie HallAmerican anti-smoking activist1960–2013
- Terrie MillerNorwegian swimmerborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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