Tera
Where Tera comes from
Tera hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1885First appearance#1,047 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1974Peak, #449409 babies named Tera — more than any year before or since.
- 1976Tera Patrick bornAmerican pornographic actress
- 1982Tera Wray bornAmerican pornographic actress
- 1991The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,065.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Tera Patrick · American pornographic actress, born 1976
- Tera Wray · American pornographic actress, 1982–2016
- Tera de Marez Oyens · Dutch composer, 1932–1996
- Tera Bond · Hungarian pornographic actress, 1978–2017
- Tera van Beilen · Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games silver medallist, born 1993
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.