Tera
Tera is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 450th, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1984416 births
- Best rank
- #450in 1974
- Since 1885
- 9,918people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,918 girls have been named Tera in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 416 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 416 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1970s alone account for 36%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tera | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 34 | |
| 1900s | 54 | |
| 1910s | 74 | |
| 1920s | 97 | |
| 1930s | 41 | |
| 1940s | 91 | |
| 1950s | 130 | |
| 1960s | 505 | |
| 1970s | 3,574 | |
| 1980s | 3,279 | |
| 1990s | 1,246 | |
| 2000s | 550 | |
| 2010s | 180 | |
| 2020s | 58 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Tera was the 486th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1984 were Jennifer, Jessica, Ashley, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Tera
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tarapeak 1972
- Niccolepeak 1972
- Shalondapeak 1980
- Quintinapeak 1976
- Heatherpeak 1975
- Roshondapeak 1976
- Natachapeak 1981
- Catrinapeak 1980
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.