How popular is the name Tera?

Tera ranks 1,252nd among girls' names in US records, with 12,363 births since 1885. Over the past decade it accounts for 146.

Is Tera a unisex name?

No. Tera is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1984, when 483 children were given the name. It has been in use for 140 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Terah, Tira, Tearah, Tirah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,252 of girl names

Pronounced T IY1 R AA1 (ARPABET)

Tera is a girls' name, and first appears in 1885. It has been given to 12,363 children — the 1,252nd most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 146 births across the past decade, against a peak of 483 in a single year. That peak was in 1984.

Four other spellings are counted in that total — Terah, Tira, Tearah and one more — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Tera and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Tera?: Tera ranks 1,252nd among girls' names in US records, with 12,363 births since 1885. Over the past decade it accounts for 146.
Is Tera a unisex name?: No. Tera is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Tera most popular?: 1984, when 483 children were given the name. It has been in use for 140 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Tera spelled?: Terah, Tira, Tearah, Tirah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.