Tierra
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #8,435
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 826 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,941since 1964
Tierra over time
Rank among girls' names. Tierra has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,396 | 46 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,866 | 59 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,226 | 50 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,385 | 76 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,597 | 69 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,326 | 80 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 99 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,041 | 100 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,495 | 156 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,239 | 200 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,133 | 218 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,085 | 219 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,065 | 217 | — | |
| 2003 | #892 | 268 | — | |
| 2002 | #712 | 348 | — | |
| 2001 | #644 | 392 | — | |
| 2000 | #534 | 488 | — | |
| 1999 | #489 | 530 | — | |
| 1998 | #424 | 623 | — | |
| 1997 | #387 | 670 | — | |
| 1996 | #364 | 747 | — | |
| 1995 | #351 | 750 | — | |
| 1994 | #330 | 811 | — | |
| 1993 | #320 | 826 | — | |
| 1992 | #349 | 747 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #359 | 714 | — | |
| 1990 | #352 | 756 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #334 | 759 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #360 | 678 | — | |
| 1987 | #434 | 509 | — | |
| 1986 | #415 | 531 | — | |
| 1985 | #464 | 459 | — | |
| 1984 | #563 | 328 | — | |
| 1983 | #608 | 289 | — | |
| 1982 | #676 | 260 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #542 | 344 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #2,342 | 41 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,621 | 34 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,572 | 33 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tierra! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tierra is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#113 · 1 in 480
- South Carolina#114 · 1 in 488
- District of Columbia#128 · 1 in 432
- Tennessee#174 · 1 in 817
- Nebraska#204 · 1 in 914
Best ever in a state: #59 in District of Columbia, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #113 | 24 | 1 in 480 |
| South Carolina | #114 | 33 | 1 in 488 |
| District of Columbia | #128 | 8 | 1 in 432 |
| Tennessee | #174 | 36 | 1 in 817 |
| Nebraska | #204 | 9 | 1 in 914 |
| Nevada | #225 | 9 | 1 in 949 |
| Georgia | #228 | 37 | 1 in 1,156 |
| North Carolina | #235 | 32 | 1 in 1,252 |
| Virginia | #244 | 26 | 1 in 1,279 |
| Alabama | #252 | 15 | 1 in 1,382 |
| Louisiana | #256 | 17 | 1 in 1,273 |
| Maryland | #265 | 17 | 1 in 1,391 |
| Illinois | #289 | 43 | 1 in 1,626 |
| Michigan | #297 | 30 | 1 in 1,732 |
| Ohio | #323 | 31 | 1 in 1,995 |
| Florida | #334 | 37 | 1 in 1,982 |
| Arkansas | #357 | 6 | 1 in 1,913 |
| Oklahoma | #360 | 9 | 1 in 1,869 |
| Missouri | #364 | 13 | 1 in 2,271 |
| Pennsylvania | #380 | 24 | 1 in 2,428 |
| New Mexico | #384 | 5 | 1 in 1,656 |
| Indiana | #387 | 14 | 1 in 2,342 |
| Wisconsin | #406 | 10 | 1 in 2,503 |
| Texas | #471 | 50 | 1 in 2,798 |
| Colorado | #475 | 8 | 1 in 2,619 |
| Oregon | #486 | 6 | 1 in 2,690 |
| Arizona | #566 | 9 | 1 in 3,120 |
| California | #662 | 50 | 1 in 4,457 |
| Washington | #808 | 5 | 1 in 5,726 |
| New York | #842 | 16 | 1 in 6,313 |
| New Jersey | #855 | 6 | 1 in 6,959 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tierra
- 994 spots since 2024 (#4,560 → #5,554)
- 67 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #5,554)
- 2,590 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #5,554)
- Biggest jump: 1,800 spots in 1981 (#2,342 → #542)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 2003 (#712 → #892)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1993 at #320 (826 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1981–2003
- Highest: 1 in 2,190 girls born in 1993 were named Tierra (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.0% of all girls named Tierra (7,174) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,741 |
| 1970s | 189 | #2,572 (1978) | #3,900 |
| 1980s | 4,198 | #334 (1989) | #674 |
| 1990s | 7,174 | #320 (1993) | #373 |
| 2000s | 2,606 | #534 (2000) | #1,084 |
| 2010s | 609 | #2,010 (2010) | #2,987 |
| 2020s | 144 | #4,560 (2024) | #5,304 |
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.
Tierra in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 2,598 of them was named Tierra, which outranked 97.6% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).