Tiera as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tiera

What is the meaning of the name Tiera ?

The baby name Tiera is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tee-EH-ruh.

Tiera is English, Latin, Spanish in Origin.

Tiera is best understood as a modern English given-name spelling connected with Spanish tierra, earth or land. The Spanish noun goes back to Latin terra, the earliest securely identifiable form in this line, with the same literal sense. Standard Spanish writes tierra with rr; Tiera drops one consonant, a change typical of name spellings adapted for English pronunciation and appearance.

As a personal name, Tiera belongs chiefly to late twentieth-century English-speaking usage, especially in the United States. Social Security records show regular use from 1980, with a high point in 1993 at about 281 births per million, followed by decline in the 2000s. Tierra is the closer Spanish-form name, while Terra preserves the Latin spelling; Tiara sometimes influences Tiera visually but has a separate crown-word history.