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Tiera

#17,049 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tiera has been given to 4,081 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #17,049 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 281 recorded.

Babies named Tiera, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tiera over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tiera: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tiera means

Tiera is a given name.

The naming story behind Tiera

Wikidata records Tiera as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98827092, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,075 girls were recorded with the name Tiera between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 281 in 1993; its best national rank was #724 in 1989.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,757 in 2015 to #17,049 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Tiera between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,815 in 1989.

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.

How common is Tiera?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,049
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tiera 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tiera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tieras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tiera was born before 1992 — so the typical Tiera is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,075
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (2,036).

Is Tiera 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,292
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.8%
Peak was 1993 (281)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#724
1989

Spellings of Tiera

Tiera is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 21.7% against Tiera's 0.30%.

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 Tiera is used

Across 1910–2025, Tiera was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 49,951 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 20,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 25,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Michigan1 in 33,333

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. Tiera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tiera around the world

Where Tiera 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1964–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tiera

People whose public names include Tiera, 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.

Tiera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,049
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#724
1989
Peak year
1993
281 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,075
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,815
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tiera

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

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Names with a curve like Tiera

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

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Sibling names for Tiera

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

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