As a variant of Terence, Terrance also derived from the Roman family name Terentius of unknown meaning. It is suggested, that it originates from the Latin word ‘terens’ for one who grinds or threshes.
Terrance is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Terrance isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Terrance ranks 725. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Terrance. In the entire USA, approximately 65,514 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Terrance. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
As a variant of Terence, Terrance also derived from the Roman family name Terentius of unknown meaning. It is suggested, that it originates from the Latin word ‘terens’ for one who grinds or threshes.
Another suggestion is, that... Terentius derived from the word 'terenus' for 'soft'. It belongs to the Oscan language, that was spoken in Italy and went extinct in the 1st century.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Terrance occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Terrance is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Terrance is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 65,504 men and boys of all generations bear the name Terrance – that is one in 2,548. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Louisiana, where one in 400 men and boys is called Terrance, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 104,923 men for their name to get Terrance as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With eight letters, the name Terrance is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Terrance and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Terrance, you can simply say:
Tiger
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Terrance
Terrance
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
E
R
R
A
N
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
E
R
R
A
N
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Terrance sounds like this:
