How rare is the name Tera?

8,809 people in the United States have the first name Tera, about 1 in 34,287. It ranks #2,669 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TERA

#2,669

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,809
About
1 in 34,287
This common or more
80.5%
Who bears it

Of the 8,809 people named Tera, 76.5% reported their origin as White, 11.4% as Black and 4.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tera peaked in 1984, when 416 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18852024
Peak year
1984
Births that year
416
In 2024
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,918 babies have been given the name since 1885. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tera by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #941. The largest share of babies named Tera, 42.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#3,1215
1890s#2,49834
1900s#2,59654
1910s#4,86174
1920s#5,44897
1930s#7,06241
1940s#5,31291
1950s#5,055130
1960s#2,595505
1970s#9413,574
1980s#1,0773,279
1990s#2,3231,246
2000s#5,052550
2010s#11,436180
2020s#16,52158
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–272%
Silent Generation 1928–451%
Baby boom 1946–644%
Generation X 1965–8042.5%
Millennials 1981–9639.3%
Generation Z 1997–129.1%
2013 and later1.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tera is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tera has been most common in Oregon (2.6×), Washington (2.3×), and Oklahoma (2.2×), and least common in New York (0.25×).

6,995 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Tera

#2,667 Yen · 8,818#2,668 Ivana · 8,816#2,670 Coy · 8,805#2,671 Braelyn · 8,800

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tera, most common first.

#1,075 Teri · 38,647#2,019 Terra · 13,575#10,076 Terah · 1,341#12,495 Teara · 995#12,842 Tere · 955#19,075 Teria · 560#20,632 Tery · 499#28,430 Terea · 316

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