Teria
Feminine
Teria is an American girl's name that adds an -a to Teri. The same letters are a famous American suffix, borrowed from cafeteria and stuck onto everything from groceries to laundry.
How old is the name Teria?
Teria first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Teria alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 600 people named Teria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teria most popular?
Teria peaked in 1972, reaching #3276 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Teria
Cafeteria came into American English from Mexican Spanish cafetería, a coffee shop, and in the self-service restaurants of Chicago it came to mean a place where you carried your own tray; Americans then cut off the -teria and attached it to anything self-service, from the groceteria to the washateria. Teria, the name, came from Teri. But it shares its letters with one of the most productive endings in American English.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Teria may be Teri with an -a or a build of its own, and nothing records which.
Pronouncing Teria
TAIR-ee-uh
Three syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Teria
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 198928 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3276reached in 1972
- Change vs 2004
- −37.5%5 in 2009, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Terias among us
people named Teria are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Teria sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Close to Teri, a familiar name.
- Rare, so a Teria is unlikely to share her name.
- Easy to say.
- People will write Tierra or Terria.
- Some will hear the end of cafeteria.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Terias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Teria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Teria in 2025?
- Teria is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Teria with classmates?
- Teria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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