girls:
14.9k births since 1964
#1251 (78th percentile)
boys:
70 births since 1981
#4516 (1st percentile)
overall:
15k births since 1964
#2147 (72nd percentile)
The name Tierra is the #2,147 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,958 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 72.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,251 (78.1% percentile) for all time with 14,888 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,516 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 70 births since 1981.
Tierra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1981 for boys). Birth data for Tierra is available in 58 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (58 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tierra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tierra reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 65.4% percentile (ranked #300) with 419 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 419 births per million (ranked 65.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tierra ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tierra reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #660) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tierra".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Tierra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Tierra is pronounced as tee-EH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEE-eh-ruh, at 31.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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