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Tera

Girls' name

Variant of Tara

Tera has been given to 9,918 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 416 recorded.

Babies named Tera, 2024

1 in 418,000

Tera over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tera: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tera means

Tera is a variant of Tara.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tera is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛɹ.ə/ for Tera.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Tera is a variant of Tara. Tara has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Tera is used in Icelandic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,918 girls were recorded with the name Tera between 1885 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 416 in 1984; its best national rank was #450 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tera?

Tera had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tera sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tera was born before 1980 — so the typical Tera is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
9,522
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (3,574).

Is Tera rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (416)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#450
1974

Spellings of Tera

Tera is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 10.8% against Tera's 0.19%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tera is used

Across 1910–2025, Tera was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 21,421 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 8,333
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 10,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 10,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 10,000
  5. 5Montana1 in 11,111
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Colorado1 in 14,286
  8. 8Kansas1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tera around the world

Where Tera ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,262
    in 1998

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tera

People whose public names include Tera, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tera in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tera. Linked forms have their own page here.

TerraThera

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tera by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#450
1974
Peak year
1984
416 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
9,918
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tera

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TerraTeriCieraKeraEraLeraTeressaKieraMeeraTieraTerrySeraTameraTereseCeraSieraTerrieTerriHeraAmeeraZeraVeraTerahTeryn

Names with a curve like Tera

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tera, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MandiCatrinaLashondaLatriceLakeshaChristopherToshaTamekaLakeishaLatoshaChristalSharonda

Sibling names for Tera

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Tera

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