Tera
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nigeria/Niger: ethnic group, town, or variant of Theresa ('reaper')
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɛɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tera is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 45K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tera itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named ธีระ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ธีระ in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.
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)
Nigeria/Niger: ethnic group, town, or variant of Theresa ('reaper').
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Tera, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tera 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #548 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | #267,756 | ธีระ | 101 |
| US United States | — | 8,809 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Tera | 382 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | ธีระ | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Tera | 55 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 6 | Tera | 90 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Tera | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 160 | 1 in 26K | 160 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Tera | 19 |
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; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Tera is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, an Afroasiatic language spoken in Nigeria.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, ellipsis of teratavu (“terabyte”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, first-person plural aorist indicative of ter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of terati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, earthen, telluric, terrestrial
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)
- Tera Fabiánováb. 1930SKpoet and writer (1930–2007)
- Tera de Marez Oyensb. 1932NLDutch composer
- Tera Heartb. 1968USAmerican pornographic actress
- Tera Patrickb. 1976USAmerican pornographic actress
- Tera Bondb. 1978HUHungarian pornographic actress (1978–2017)
- Tera Moodyb. 1980USAmerican distance runner
- Tera Wrayb. 1982USAmerican pornographic actress (1982–2016)
- Tera Bjorklundb. 1982USAmerican basketball player (born 1982)
- Lubabalo Mtembub. 1990ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African rugby union footballer
- Tera van Beilenb. 1993CACanadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games silver medallist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.8K | #2,669 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 416 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 409 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 402 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 160 | #1,290 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 102 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37 | #2,669 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1992 | 16 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1997 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1996 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Tera mean, and where does it come from?
- Nigeria/Niger: ethnic group, town, or variant of Theresa ('reaper'). Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Tera?
- A machine transcription gives /tɛɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tera a male or female name?
- Tera is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Tera?
- In the etymology graph, Tara, Tarah and Tarina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named ธีระ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tera most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tera is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,809 people named Tera in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Tera compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Tera is the 548th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tera?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teraThe 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, “Tera” — the 548th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.