Tierra
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Recent coinage, of uncertain derivation, ostensibly from Spanish tierra ‘land’, ‘earth’ (Latin terra), but cf
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tierra is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
- ISIceland≈1 in 111K
- CACanada≈1 in 270K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
11,562 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Recent coinage, of uncertain derivation, ostensibly from Spanish tierra ‘land’, ‘earth’ (Latin terra), but cf. Tiara.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tierra 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 11,562 | 1 in 29K | 12K | Tierra | 331 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 453K | listed | Tierra | 40 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Tierra | 45 |
| ES Spain | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 931K | 478 | — | 21 |
| CL Chile | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 379K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 111K | listed | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
11,562 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; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tierra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, land, ground (the part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, ground, floor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pedro Tierrab. 1948BRBrazilian poet and politician (1948-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 478 | #8,312 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 478 | #8,305 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 177 | #107,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 155 | #113,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 128 | #124,109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tierra come from?
- Recent coinage, of uncertain derivation, ostensibly from Spanish tierra ‘land’, ‘earth’ (Latin terra), but cf. Tiara. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Tierra mean?
- Recorded meaning: Recent coinage, of uncertain derivation, ostensibly from Spanish tierra ‘land’, ‘earth’ (Latin terra), but cf.
- In which country does Tierra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Tierra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tierra.
- Where is Tierra most common?
- Tierra is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tierra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,562 people named Tierra in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tierraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Tierra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.