Teira — girls' name
292 babies named Teira in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Teira was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Teira in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Teira
The Social Security Administration has registered 292 babies named Teira between 1977 and 2009, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Teira performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Teira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Teira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Teira 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 292 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.
Teira at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Teira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1977
- Peak year (1990)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
292 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 30 births in a single year.
Teira by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 141 births that decade — 48% of Teira's all-time total
Teira decade highlights
- Peak decade 141 births
- Runner-up 97 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Teira's strongest decade
141 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Teira by state
Where Teira concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ohio | | 5 | 1.7% |
5 of 292 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Ohio 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 1.7% 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, 1977–2009 (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.