Teara — girls' name

What the Data Says About Teara

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,260 babies named Teara between 1968 and 2015, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teara currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 73 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teara performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 560 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Teara shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 39 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Teara in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teara in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,260 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.