Tera Surname
Approximately 12,944 people bear this surname
Tera Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2,236 | 1:343,052 | 18,822 |
| Burkina Faso | 1,819 | 1:10,089 | 920 |
| Ethiopia | 1,610 | 1:60,588 | 6,165 |
| Egypt | 1,159 | 1:79,323 | 7,119 |
| Japan | 832 | 1:153,659 | 7,767 |
| Nepal | 654 | 1:43,549 | 1,396 |
| Zimbabwe | 583 | 1:26,481 | 4,071 |
| Indonesia | 532 | 1:248,589 | 22,712 |
| Papua New Guinea | 497 | 1:16,406 | 1,627 |
| Mali | 452 | 1:37,542 | 1,092 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Ivory Coast | 231 | 1:99,875 | 5,190 |
| Nigeria | 197 | 1:899,202 | 39,032 |
| Spain | 186 | 1:251,355 | 16,061 |
| Mexico | 148 | 1:838,691 | 11,929 |
| Tanzania | 130 | 1:407,243 | 28,711 |
| Malaysia | 112 | 1:263,341 | 14,729 |
| Kenya | 107 | 1:431,588 | 23,328 |
| Panama | 95 | 1:41,182 | 2,154 |
| Iran | 93 | 1:825,619 | 40,849 |
| United States | 90 | 1:4,027,321 | 218,060 |
| France | 73 | 1:909,900 | 105,096 |
| Estonia | 65 | 1:20,335 | 3,530 |
| Albania | 62 | 1:47,001 | 6,300 |
| Poland | 60 | 1:633,479 | 56,390 |
| Uganda | 59 | 1:661,683 | 33,952 |
| Algeria | 59 | 1:654,772 | 39,984 |
| Haiti | 48 | 1:222,581 | 8,250 |
| Benin | 45 | 1:229,680 | 20,839 |
| Philippines | 43 | 1:2,354,377 | 127,644 |
| Brazil | 40 | 1:5,351,858 | 134,966 |
| Ukraine | 25 | 1:1,820,908 | 133,658 |
| French Polynesia | 25 | 1:11,232 | 2,339 |
| Niger | 24 | 1:799,667 | 18,510 |
| Senegal | 18 | 1:809,963 | 2,817 |
| Australia | 14 | 1:1,928,264 | 88,951 |
| Russia | 13 | 1:11,086,389 | 347,183 |
| Pakistan | 13 | 1:13,741,837 | 58,392 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Taiwan | 12 | 1:1,953,729 | 12,642 |
| Solomon Islands | 10 | 1:58,003 | 11,702 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Romania | 5 | 1:4,015,574 | 58,306 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Venezuela | 4 | 1:7,551,019 | 53,668 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Burundi | 4 | 1:2,451,213 | 1,279 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Syria | 2 | 1:9,650,511 | 17,817 |
| Cook Islands | 2 | 1:9,090 | 1,387 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Téra (54), Terä (49), Terá (2) & Têra (1) are calculated separately.
Tera (25,661) may also be a first name.
Tera Demographics
Average Tera Salary in
United States
$41,500 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Tera Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tera Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tera (Bengali: তেরা, Hindi: तेरा, Marathi: टेरा, Oriya: େଟରା, Russian: Тера) is borne by more people in India than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Téra, Terä, Terá or Têra. Click here for further possible spellings of Tera.
How Common Is The Last Name Tera? popularity and diffusion
Tera is the 40,482nd most common family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 563,006 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 52 percent of Tera are found; 23 percent are found in South Asia and 22 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Tera is also the 31,363rd most frequently held forename on earth. It is borne by 25,661 people.
The surname Tera is most commonly occurring in India, where it is carried by 2,236 people, or 1 in 343,052. In India Tera is most common in: Andhra Pradesh, where 69 percent live, Telangana, where 18 percent live and Tamil Nadu, where 6 percent live. Outside of India this last name is found in 86 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 14 percent live and Ethiopia, where 12 percent live.
Tera Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is primarily Orthodox (50%) in Russia, Christian (100%) in Kenya and Latin Catholic (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Tera last name are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 60% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Tera earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 3.82% less than the national average, earning $41,500 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.78% less than the national average, earning $41,842 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tera Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tera in the Bengali language | ||
| তেরা | tera | - |
| Tera in the Oriya language | ||
| େଟରା | etara | 89.66 |
| େତରା | etara | 4.6 |
| େଟର | etara | 3.45 |
| Tera in the Hindi language | ||
| तेरा | tera | 62.34 |
| टेरा | tera | 28.57 |
| तेर | tera | 3.9 |
| टेड़ा | tera | 2.6 |
| तारा | tara | 1.3 |
| Tera in the Marathi language | ||
| टेरा | tera | 54.55 |
| तेरा | tera | 45.45 |
| Tera in the Russian language | ||
| Тера | tera | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tera
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