Tereka
Tereka was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 107 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tereka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tereka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,565, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1985, the peak
Tereka peaked in 1985, when 12 girls were given it, #6,008 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #15,565 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,592 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,205 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,819 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,741 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,718 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,185 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,459 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,008 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,031 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 10 | #6,663 | 6.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,359 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,753 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,942 | 4.4 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,164 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tereka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tereka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tereka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tereka, and how old are they?
An estimated 103 Americans named Tereka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 37 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 126 people named Tereka (123 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,000 babies since 1880, Tereka is the sixth most given (3.6% 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 Tereka
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 Tereka and names like it
- Compare Tereka and TericaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTereka peaked in 1985.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Tereka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tereka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.