Terrell
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Transferred use of the surname, a variant of Tyrrell
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
/teɾreʎ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Terrell is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 19Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 474 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
26,446 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Transferred use of the surname, a variant of Tyrrell.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Terrell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #832 | 26,446 | 1 in 13K | 35K | Terrell | 474 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 995 | Terrell | 132 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Terrell | 85 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Terrell | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Terrell | 89 |
| IE Ireland | #683 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Terrell | 8 |
| MR Mauritania | #128 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Terrell | 2 |
| DM Dominica | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 8 | — | 2 |
26,446 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Terrell is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An unincorporated community in Worth County, Georgia, United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, different form of Tyrrell.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Terrell Tilfordb. 1969USAmerican actor (b. 1969)
- Terrell Brandonb. 1970USAmerican basketball player (born 1970)
- Terrell Davisb. 1972USformer American football running back
- Terrell Owensb. 1973USAmerican football player (born 1973)
- Terrell McIntyreb. 1977USAmerican basketball player (born 1977)
- Terrell Suggsb. 1982USAmerican football player (born 1982)
- Marcus Thorntonb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
- Playboi Cartib. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Quando Rondob. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Terrell Ransom Jr.b. 2003USAmerican actor
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 35K | #983 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 34K | #946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 34K | #1,013 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 995 | #6,639 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #219 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Terrell mean, and where does it come from?
- Transferred use of the surname, a variant of Tyrrell. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Terrell?
- In Spanish /teɾreʎ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What are other forms of the name Terrell?
- In the etymology graph, Terell is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Terrell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Terrell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terrell.
- Where is Terrell most common?
- Terrell is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Terrell a male or female name?
- Terrell is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How common is the name Terrell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,446 people named Terrell in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Terrell compared with other names?
- In the United States, Terrell is the 832nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terrellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Terrell” — the 832nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.