Téra

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Téra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *terä.

  • HRCroatia1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 38K
  • ISIceland1 in 175K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,809 people, 2020

Record sources
11 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: reference-verified

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tera in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Proto-Finnic *terä.

Cited for this meaning 3

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Téra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Téra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8,8091 in 38K8.8KTera11
HR Croatia1601 in 26K160——
NL Netherlands601 in 288K60——
BR Brazil261 in 8.1M90——
SE Sweden81 in 1.3M8——
GY Guyana31 in 250K3——
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

8,809 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Téra is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Tera, Tęrâ, Terã

  • Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Tera, T'Era, Terá, Têra, Tēra

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Tera

  • English given name108 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Thai, German

    Also written Tera, ธีระ, Teera, ธร, ธีร์

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tera, Ṭérā, Terā, Tēra, Terä

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Téra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mzs, land, region, territory

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Guarani, name, denomination

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, terabyte

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kea, earth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Téra under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Téra mean, and where does it come from?
From Proto-Finnic *terä. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
Is Téra a male or female name?
Téra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Téra have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Téra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tera.
Where is Téra most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Téra is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Téra?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,809 people named Téra in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Téra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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