Tierra
Tierra was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,702 among girls’ names; 15,011 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,700 Americans named Tierra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 27 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tierra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tierra?
#5,702 among girls’ names, 2025
Tierra fell from #2,999 in 2015 to #5,702 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 13.7 per million.
826 babies in 1993, the peak
Tierra peaked in 1993, when 826 girls were given it, #320 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,702 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,654 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,138 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,289 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,220 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,650 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,780 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,434 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,471 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,898 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,999 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,266 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,404 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,627 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,344 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,026 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,060 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,503 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 200 | #1,243 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 218 | #1,135 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 219 | #1,092 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 217 | #1,066 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 268 | #892 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 348 | #714 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 392 | #645 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 488 | #534 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 530 | #490 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 623 | #425 | 0.35 |
| 1997 | 670 | #388 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 747 | #364 | 0.43 |
| 1995 | 750 | #351 | 0.43 |
| 1994 | 811 | #331 | 0.45 |
| 1993 | 826 | #320 | 0.46 |
| 1992 | 747 | #349 | 0.41 |
| 1991 | 714 | #359 | 0.38 |
| 1990 | 756 | #353 | 0.40 |
| 1989 | 759 | #335 | 0.41 |
| 1988 | 678 | #360 | 0.38 |
| 1987 | 509 | #434 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 531 | #415 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 459 | #464 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 328 | #564 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 289 | #609 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 260 | #678 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 344 | #542 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,388 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,663 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,624 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,477 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,178 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,932 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,701 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,146 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,509 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,293 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,378 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,725 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tierra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tierra has been given almost only to girls: 70 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tierra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tierra, and how old are they?
14,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 15,011 Americans ever recorded as Tierra. The median Tierra alive today is 32 years old; half are between 27 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 11,562 people named Tierra (11,509 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,632 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 502 |
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 Tierra born?
The states with the most babies named Tierra are Illinois, California and Texas, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 1,100 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 966 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 821 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 812 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 788 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 778 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Maryland | 713 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Virginia | 629 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 622 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 561 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Tierra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tierra is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1964 it was given 3.6 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 Tierra 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 48,422 babies since 1880, Tierra is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 122 babies (18%), again the second most given.
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 Tierra
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 Tierra and names like it
- Compare Tierra and TiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTierra peaked in 1993.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tierra since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Tierra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tierra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.