Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Terrance
/TER · ants/
Meaning
“Tender”
Variant spelling of Terence, from the Roman family name Terentius; the origin is uncertain, possibly Etruscan, carried by the Roman playwright Terence.
Nicknames
terry
Vibe
strongelegant
How it ages.
American spelling variant that peaked in the 1960s-70s; reads as distinctly mid-century.
The cultural moment.
Common in the US from the 1950s through 1970s; declining since.