Terry can be spelled many different ways. It can be spelled Terri, Terry, Tery, Terry. Some of those are wierd spellings, but some people spell the like that.
-- Anonymous User 10/13/2005
This is my Dad's name. I think of it as a masculine name, rather than a feminine one. I love my Dad more than anything, he is a great representative of the name Terry. The nicest person in the world.
-- Anonymous User 10/17/2005
Phonetic evolution of Tyre as TY-ree Hence, Tyrians, Tyrian, colloquial pre 1400 BC "Tyree - Lord of Tyre". In ancient shipping an enstampment signified by the single letter "T" a mark of various meanings in context; signifying mostly ownership and source of various cargoes, especially coins and precious metals.
There's nothing wrong with Terry for either a boy or a girl, but it just seems to me that it shouldn't be a name in its own right. It should always be a nickname for either Terrence or Theresa.
Terry Boot is a character in the Harry Potter series. (Ha, and I thought all the HP characters had been mentioned before.)
-- Anonymous User 1/20/2008
I'm sorry but I really don't like this name, it reminds me of a snappy little dog that is forever urinating and defecating on the lino floor of a council-house kitchen. :S