How Many People Are Named Tera?
people named Tera are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 37,292 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,918 babies named Tera in Social Security records from 1885 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
416 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of TARA (1).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Tera in English. Counting Tera and these spellings together, about 28,536 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Tera in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Tera alive today is about 43 years old, and 83% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 50 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Tera first appears in the records in 1885 and was given most often in 1984, to 416 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1885 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Tera has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #450, in 1974.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #450 (1974) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #519 in the 1970s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Tera alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Tera were born in California than in any other state: about 830 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tera was given 2.4 times as often in Oklahoma, 2.3 times in Oregon and 2.2 times in Arkansas.
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