Black Ghetto Baby Names | Terrance

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Terrance

Here at Black Ghetto Baby Names on this evening we will be covering the African American name “Terrance”.

Terrence

Pronounced TER-ants, Terrance is a variation of the name Terence. It is generally a male name which can also be used as a surname. 

History

Believed to originate from the Roman family name Terentius of which the meaning is unclear. It may mean soft or tender. Bearers of this name were Publius Terentius Afer, a playwright and Marcus Terentius Varro, a scholar. Several early saints also bore the name. In Ireland the name was used as an Anglicization of Toirhhealbhach, pronounced TORE-lock, meaning instigator or prompter. It was not used in English until the late 19th Century, where there were several families in the Midlothian region of Scotland in 1891. 

Popularity

it was the 474th most popular boy’s name in the United States in 2007, falling from its peak of 200th in the 1980s 

Famous African American Terrances

Terrance Hayes, poet. In his powerful first book of poems Muscular Music (Chicago: Tia Chucha, 1997), Hayes’s constantly shifting angle of entry navigated the multi-dimensional home turf of popular African-American aesthetics, the ubiquitous inner-city, to amazing results.

Terence Blanchard, an internationally renowned African americanjazz trumpeter, has composed music for all of director Spike Lee’s films — from Malcolm X to Inside Man. Terrance Howard has made a name for himself in the movie industry. He has made a couple of hit movies like Ironman and Hustle And Flow. He is a talented actor who can carry a film. He is expected to do more directing in the future. One of his first acting parts was on The Cosby show.

Democrats elected Rep. Terrance Carroll of Denver as their speaker in Colorado’s House of Representatives on November 6th 2008 Senate Democrats also re-elected Peter Groff of Denver as their Senate president. That means for the first time that two black men hold the most powerful positions in Colorado’s legislature, where the Ku Klux Klan once controlled the House, Senate and governor’s seat. “This is unprecedented,” said former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, the city’s first black mayor. “We have two African Americans leading the legislature in a state with such a small black population. “Dr. King would be proud because people are voting for the individual and his color has nothing to do with,” Webb added.

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