How rare is the name Tierra?

11,562 people in the United States have the first name Tierra, about 1 in 26,123. It ranks #2,253 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TIERRA

#2,253

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,562
About
1 in 26,123
This common or more
79.1%
Who bears it

Of the 11,562 people named Tierra, 75.5% reported their origin as Black, 12.2% as White and 6.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tierra peaked in 1993, when 826 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19642025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
826
In 2025*
22 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 15,011 babies have been given the name since 1964. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tierra by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #729. The largest share of babies named Tierra, 63.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#12,10321
1970s#5,553189
1980s#9054,252
1990s#7297,190
2000s#1,6932,606
2010s#4,913609
2020s#9,162144
Baby boom 1946–640%
Generation X 1965–801.6%
Millennials 1981–9663.8%
Generation Z 1997–1231.2%
2013 and later3.4%

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 Tierra is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tierra has been most common in District of Columbia (3.7×), Maryland (3.6×), and South Carolina (2.6×), and least common in Minnesota (0.17×).

13,047 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 Tierra

#2,251 Coleman · 11,573#2,252 Kaia · 11,567#2,254 Sang · 11,561#2,255 Sky · 11,558

Spelled almost the same

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

#5,276 Tiera · 3,292#5,981 Tiarra · 2,752#22,241 Tierre · 449#37,262 Tieara · 210#49,815 Tiearra · 123#51,342 Tierrah · 114#53,270 Tierria · 101

Also a last name

As a last name, Tierra ranks #107,024 of 156,621, with 177 people. See Tierra as a last name

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