Tiera
Tiera was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,049 among girls’ names; 4,081 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,990 Americans named Tiera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 29 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tiera?
#17,049 among girls’ names, 2025
Tiera fell from #11,757 in 2015 to #17,049 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.1 per million.
281 babies in 1993, the peak
Tiera peaked in 1993, when 281 girls were given it, #741 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,049 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,455 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,745 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,680 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,544 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,208 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,757 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,443 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,472 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,590 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | #6,826 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,581 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,082 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,263 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,372 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,811 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,045 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,803 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,702 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,347 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,043 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,644 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 119 | #1,458 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 136 | #1,309 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 143 | #1,246 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,084 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 206 | #915 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 189 | #983 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 281 | #741 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 273 | #762 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 251 | #819 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 267 | #767 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 273 | #724 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 214 | #842 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 197 | #865 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 154 | #1,004 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 118 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,656 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,769 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,896 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,115 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,135 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,400 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,071 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,593 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,830 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,331 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,548 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,996 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiera has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tiera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiera, and how old are they?
3,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,081 Americans ever recorded as Tiera. The median Tiera alive today is 34 years old; half are between 29 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 3,292 people named Tiera (3,275 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,002 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 61 |
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 Tiera born?
The states with the most babies named Tiera are Illinois, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 225 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 219 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 209 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 205 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 204 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 170 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 167 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 141 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 134 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 129 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Tiera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tiera is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1967 it was given 1.7 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 Tiera 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 64,137 babies since 1880, Tiera is the fourth most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 170 babies (2.9%), the fifth 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 Tiera
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 Tiera and names like it
- Compare Tiera and TiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTiera peaked in 1993.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiera since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Tiera.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tiera alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.