Teara

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419

Peak · girls
1990 · 73 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,260
since 1968

Teara over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Teara has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201968peak #1,905, 1990girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2015#16,4195
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2012#10,42910
2011#13,3477
2010#10,45110
2009#11,4599
2008#8,10915
2007#6,32321
2006#6,59219
2005#5,99920
2004#6,21619
2003#5,23523
2002#4,28029
2001#3,54937
2000#3,66435
1999#2,89646
1998#3,06841
1997#2,55650
1996#2,59148
1995#2,48651
1994#2,16762
1993#2,28956
1992#2,07865
1991#2,01468
1990#1,90573
1989#2,40848
1988#2,21651
1987#2,27647
1986#2,30044
1985#2,65736
1984#3,52723
1983#3,68721
1982#3,34425
1981#4,00519
1980#9,0956
1979#4,62615
1978#4,07917
1977#4,23516
1976#9,2845
1975#4,37014
1974#4,22714
1973#4,87111
1972#4,52312
1971#6,6197
1970#7,9955
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Teara! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Teara is popular in 1968

No state had 5 or more girls named Teara in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Teara
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1990 at #1,905 (73 births)
  • Births halved by 2000, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 26,007
  • Highest: 1 in 26,007 girls born in 1990 were named Teara (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,020 girls born in 2015 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 44.4% of all girls named Teara (560) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,016 (1968)#7,016
1970s116#4,079 (1978)#5,483
1980s320#2,216 (1988)#3,552
1990s560#1,905 (1990)#2,405
2000s227#3,549 (2001)#6,143
2010s32#10,429 (2012)#12,662

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Teara in 1968

girls
#7,016
5 births · 1 in 328,078 girls

Top girls' names in 1968

  1. #1Lisa49,534
  2. #2Michelle33,223
  3. #3Kimberly31,906
  4. #4Jennifer26,853
  5. #5Melissa21,733
  6. #6Mary21,727
  7. #7Angela20,670
  8. #8Tammy20,058
  9. #9Karen19,560
  10. #10Susan19,503
  11. #7,016Teara5
More about 1968

girls

1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 328,078 of them was named Teara, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Teara
  1. #6,246Zipporah6
  2. #6,246Zonia6
  3. #6,246Zonya6
  4. #7,016Teara5
  5. #7,016Abelina5
  6. #7,016Adah5
  7. #7,016Adaline5

Tied with 1,182 names at #7,016; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,132Coretta#3,656 → #524
  2. ↑ 1,257Tamika#1,980 → #723
  3. ↑ 1,150Tamiko#1,702 → #552
  4. ↑ 607Chantel#1,348 → #741
  5. ↑ 490Chantal#1,441 → #951
Fallers
  1. ↓ 602Wende#857 → #1,459
  2. ↓ 545Zina#959 → #1,504
  3. ↓ 341Evonne#970 → #1,311
  4. ↓ 294Portia#902 → #1,196
  5. ↓ 285Mariann#973 → #1,258

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1968 →