Meaning not yet researched.
Terra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #379 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #379 in 1980; #2,434 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Terra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,434 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #379.
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Terra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 girls in 2025. Peak: #379 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 604 (1980).
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Terra, making it the 2,434th most common girls’ name of the year, up 97 places from #2,531 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 71 girls named Terra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #379, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 604. For comparison, it was #2,087 in 2015 and #2,894 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Terra in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 15,434 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4,766 babies named Terra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 835 US girls were named Terra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Terra ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,663 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Terri (147,027 babies since 1880), Tera (9,918 babies since 1880), Eartha (2,952 babies since 1880) and Tiara (23,929 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Theora, Teairra and Terrah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Theora (853), Teairra (745), Terrah (674), Tyerra (176), Tierrah (103), Tella (54), Teray (17), Terrae (15), Terray (11), Terae (10), Teaerra (5), Teerra (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Terra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,663 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,741 | #1,722 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,894 | #2,041 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2015 | 94 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1999 | 190 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1998 | 175 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1997 | 175 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1996 | 204 | #944 | — | — |
| 1995 | 233 | #840 | — | — |
| 1994 | 253 | #801 | — | — |
| 1993 | 264 | #783 | — | — |
| 1992 | 284 | #747 | — | — |
| 1991 | 304 | #701 | — | — |
| 1990 | 355 | #634 | — | — |
| 1989 | 371 | #590 | — | — |
| 1988 | 380 | #561 | — | — |
| 1987 | 365 | #549 | — | — |
| 1986 | 414 | #506 | — | — |
| 1985 | 469 | #458 | — | — |
| 1984 | 518 | #411 | 5 | #7,226 |
| 1983 | 510 | #425 | — | — |
| 1982 | 522 | #423 | — | — |
| 1981 | 483 | #444 | — | — |
| 1980 | 604 | #379 | — | — |
| 1979 | 554 | #394 | — | — |
| 1978 | 509 | #407 | — | — |
| 1977 | 543 | #387 | — | — |
| 1976 | 486 | #416 | — | — |
| 1975 | 527 | #386 | — | — |
| 1974 | 518 | #395 | — | — |
| 1973 | 469 | #417 | — | — |
| 1972 | 489 | #404 | — | — |
| 1971 | 394 | #490 | — | — |
| 1970 | 277 | #619 | — | — |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1967 | 64 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1966 | 69 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1965 | 59 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1963 | 72 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,990 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,969 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).