Tearra — girls' name
758 babies named Tearra in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Tearra was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Tearra in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tearra
The Social Security Administration has registered 758 babies named Tearra between 1977 and 2018, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tearra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tearra performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 350 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tearra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Tearra in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tearra 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 758 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.
Tearra at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tearra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1977
- Peak year (1989)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
758 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 43 births in a single year.
Tearra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 350 births that decade — 46% of Tearra's all-time total
Tearra decade highlights
- Peak decade 350 births
- Runner-up 202 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tearra's strongest decade
350 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Tearra by state
Where Tearra concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 11 | 1.5% |
| #2 | Ohio | | 7 | 0.9% |
| #3 | Alabama | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #4 | California | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Missouri | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #7 | New York | | 5 | 0.7% |
11 of 758 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.5% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.9% of nationwide
- Alabama 0.8% of nationwide
- California 0.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.