Tiara
Feminine · “headdress”
Tiara is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 23,868 girls against 61 boys since 1880.
Tiara is a Persian headdress. The Greeks borrowed the word for the tall hat of the Persian kings, and it traveled through Latin into English, where it eventually meant a jewelled band.
How old is the name Tiara?
Tiara first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Tiara alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 23,500 people named Tiara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tiara most popular?
Tiara peaked in 1988, reaching #216 nationally. Today it ranks #2002, 1,786 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tiara to Tiara
The story of Tiara
The word entered English in the sixteenth century for the Persian headdress and the papal crown, and only later for the jewelled band. Its use as a given name is American and recent: it appears in the registers from the 1970s, part of a broader turn toward names that are plainly precious objects, and peaked in the early 1990s.
Meaning
headdress, crown
From the Greek tiara, borrowed from an Iranian word for the tall conical headdress worn by Persian kings. Latin took it as tiara, and English narrowed it to a jewelled ornament and to the papal triple crown. The Persian original is not further recoverable.
How the name formed
- tiara
- Tiara
Related forms: Tiara · Tiara · Tiarra
Pronouncing Tiara
tee-AR-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. It is an ordinary English word and English speakers do not mispronounce it.
Nicknames for Tiara
Moderate
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 19951,278 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #216reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- +30.1%95 in 2025, from 73
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.
Tiara in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiara in Spanish — same name
- Tiara in Indonesian — same name
- Tiarra in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, California, New York.
Tiaras among us
people named Tiara are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,919 born in 2025 was named Tiara
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Francine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tiara's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Francine climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Francine's path sketches the road Tiara is walking now.
Tiara sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tiara is headed
Tiara should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tiara beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tiara in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete and the Persian royal history behind it is genuinely interesting.
- Tia works immediately as a short form and stands alone.
- Three syllables with a strong middle, a rhythm that carries well.
- It is an ordinary English noun and never reads as purely a name.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tiaras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 23,500 people named Tiara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tiara in 2025?
- Tiara ranks #2002 among US girl names in 2025, with 95 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tiara?
- About 1 in every 16,919 US girls born in 2025 was named Tiara — 95 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tiara with classmates?
- Tiara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tiara
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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