Teara
Teara was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,260 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Teara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,854, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1990, the peak
Teara peaked in 1990, when 73 girls were given it, #1,917 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,854 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,177 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,702 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,170 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,354 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,482 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,527 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,809 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,225 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,468 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 23 | #5,399 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,371 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,621 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,723 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,927 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,108 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,585 | 28.7 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,622 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,510 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,181 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,314 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,099 | 35.3 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,026 | 36.3 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,917 | 38.5 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,436 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,241 | 28.6 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,306 | 27.0 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,335 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,699 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,603 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,796 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,410 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,153 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,265 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,826 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,234 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,411 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,749 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,576 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,438 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,161 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,771 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,304 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,209 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,076 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teara, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,260 Americans ever recorded as Teara. The median Teara alive today is 34 years old; half are between 28 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 995 people named Teara (988 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 718 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 386 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 221,443 babies since 1880, Teara is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Teara (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Teara
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 Teara and names like it
- Compare Teara and TerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTeara peaked in 1990.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teara since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Teara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Teara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.