Terre
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Terre is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 326K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 239K
- CACanada≈1 in 251K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 239K (inferred from the name graph)
1,020 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Terre 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 | 1,020 | 1 in 326K | 854 | Terre | 208 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 368K | 7 | Terre | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Terre | 18 |
| BR Brazil | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 169 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 42 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 436K | 2 | — | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 239K | 4 | — | 3 |
1,020 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Terre is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a period between January 13 and February 11, same as torre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of terreō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of ter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of terrar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, earth, ground
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, earth, soil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Louise Terreb. 1849FRvictim of the Bazar de la Charité fire
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 169 | #42,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 154 | #107,038 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 58 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Terre have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Terre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terre.
- How common is the name Terre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,020 people named Terre in 2020, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Terre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terreThe 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, “Terre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.