Tiare
Tiare was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,103 among girls’ names; 1,293 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Tiare and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiare by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tiare mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tiare is “a female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.”
From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tiare?
#7,103 among girls’ names, 2025
Tiare rose from #11,755 in 2015 to #7,103 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 10.0 per million.
60 babies in 1992, the peak
Tiare peaked in 1992, when 60 girls were given it, #2,231 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,103 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,057 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,251 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,617 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,102 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,904 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,287 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,074 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,633 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,055 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,755 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,021 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,186 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,844 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,676 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,245 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,313 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,780 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,933 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,942 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,928 | 30.3 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,160 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,296 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,074 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,018 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,774 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,499 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,906 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,533 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,224 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,074 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,652 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,408 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,231 | 32.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,431 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,509 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,468 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,881 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,614 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,447 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,442 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,608 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,144 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,250 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,614 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,227 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,895 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,199 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,511 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,339 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,629 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,743 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,038 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,278 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,318 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,377 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,932 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,109 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,947 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,760 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,472 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,867 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,448 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,224 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiare a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiare has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tiare: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiare, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,293 Americans ever recorded as Tiare. The median Tiare alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,122 people named Tiare (1,113 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 488 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 439 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 146 |
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).
Where are babies named Tiare born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 5 | #209 | 102.9× |
| California | 5 | #3,489 | 0.7× |
Where Tiare is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tiare is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1960 it was given 102.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tiare with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,285 babies since 1880, Tiare is the fourth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 116 babies (14%), the second most given that year.
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 Tiare
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 Tiare and names like it
- Compare Tiare and TiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTiare peaked in 1992.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiare since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Tiare.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tiare alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.