Teryl is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to girls than boys.
At least in the US, the name Teryl is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Teryl each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Teryl will meet someone with the same name. So, Teryl is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Teryl. Kids called Teryl have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,502 Teryl ranked higher than ever in 1949. By comparison, there have been 91 years in which the first name Teryl has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their babies Teryl only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Teryl you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Teryl was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for given names. Because: 6.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With five letters, the name Teryl is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an S, this initial letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Teryl 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 Teryl, you can simply say:
Tiger
Elephant
Rocket
Yoyo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Teryl
Teryl
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
E
R
Y
L
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
Y
L
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. Teryl sounds like this:
