Given name
Teryl
“one who is vivacious and bright”
Teryl is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “one who is vivacious and bright.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is vivacious and bright.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1939. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teryl through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,042
- 263 boys · 779 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 44 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 boys is 6 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,034 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.
Teryl’s family of names
Teryl has a related form in Terryl. Teryl has a related form in Terryll. Teryl has a related form in Teryll.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Teryl
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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