Terra
#2,410 for girls in 2025, 74 births · Last seen for boys in 1984 at #6,315
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 604 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,429since 1940
Terra over time
Rank among girls' names. Terra 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 | #2,410 | 74 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,508 | 71 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,124 | 90 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,174 | 87 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,309 | 79 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,140 | 87 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,160 | 88 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,080 | 94 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,213 | 85 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,211 | 84 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,929 | 102 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,165 | 92 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,062 | 99 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,059 | 99 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,050 | 96 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,589 | 128 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,871 | 101 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,486 | 131 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,404 | 137 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,573 | 118 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,225 | 162 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,061 | 190 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,099 | 175 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,074 | 175 | — | |
| 1996 | #943 | 204 | — | |
| 1995 | #838 | 233 | — | |
| 1994 | #801 | 253 | — | |
| 1993 | #781 | 264 | — | |
| 1992 | #744 | 284 | — | |
| 1991 | #700 | 304 | — | |
| 1990 | #631 | 355 | — | |
| 1989 | #590 | 371 | — | |
| 1988 | #561 | 380 | — | |
| 1987 | #548 | 365 | — | |
| 1986 | #505 | 414 | — | |
| 1985 | #458 | 469 | — | |
| 1984 | #411 | 518 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #424 | 510 | — | |
| 1982 | #423 | 522 | — | |
| 1981 | #444 | 483 | — | |
| 1980 | #379 | 604 | — | |
| 1979 | #393 | 554 | — | |
| 1978 | #406 | 509 | — | |
| 1977 | #387 | 543 | — | |
| 1976 | #416 | 486 | — | |
| 1975 | #386 | 527 | — | |
| 1974 | #395 | 518 | — | |
| 1973 | #417 | 469 | — | |
| 1972 | #404 | 489 | — | |
| 1971 | #488 | 394 | — | |
| 1970 | #618 | 277 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,303 | 75 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,365 | 67 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,372 | 64 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,304 | 69 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,437 | 59 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,293 | 74 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,298 | 72 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,577 | 51 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,580 | 51 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,061 | 31 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,478 | 53 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,588 | 45 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,442 | 54 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,560 | 46 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,516 | 45 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,834 | 30 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,200 | 22 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Terra! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1941, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Terra
- 98 spots since 2024 (#2,508 → #2,410)
- 194 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,410)
- 330 spots since 2015 (#2,080 → #2,410)
- Biggest jump: 685 spots in 1970 (#1,303 → #618)
- Biggest drop: 131 spots in 1997 (#943 → #1,074)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1980 at #379 (604 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1970–1996
- Highest: 1 in 2,749 girls born in 1980 were named Terra (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,720 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.9% of all girls named Terra (4,766) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 81 | #2,589 (1948) | #3,503 |
| 1950s | 365 | #1,442 (1957) | #1,826 |
| 1960s | 613 | #1,293 (1964) | #1,459 |
| 1970s | 4,766 | #386 (1975) | #431 |
| 1980s | 4,636 | #379 (1980) | #474 |
| 1990s | 2,437 | #631 (1990) | #867 |
| 2000s | 1,163 | #1,225 (2000) | #1,748 |
| 2010s | 886 | #1,929 (2012) | #2,154 |
| 2020s | 482 | #2,124 (2023) | #2,290 |
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.
Terra in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 3,251 of them was named Terra, which outranked 96.6% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 360,970 of them was named Terra, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,026 names at #6,315; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.