Takera
Takera was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 286 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,216, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1989, the peak
Takera peaked in 1989, when 18 girls were given it, #5,030 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,216 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,679 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,302 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,535 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,814 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,592 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,349 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,069 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,681 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,089 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 | #8,731 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,970 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,837 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,082 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,460 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,679 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,997 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,685 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,920 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,085 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,030 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,059 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,035 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,177 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,727 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,952 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takera, and how old are they?
An estimated 281 Americans named Takera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 24 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Takera (239 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 282 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,449 babies since 1880, Takera is the sixth most given (6.4% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Takera
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Takera and names like it
- Compare Takera and TakaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTakera peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Takera.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Takera alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.