Given name
Tiria
“reverence”·“fear”
Tiria is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewתיריא
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Tiria means “reverence” or “fear.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Tiria is a biblical name from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew verb yara' (ירא), “to fear or revere.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Tiria appears in 1 Chronicles 4:16.
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Tiria through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tiria’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 13
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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