Tiras
Tiras is, according to the Book of Genesis and 1 Chronicles, the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Hebrew Bible. A brother of biblical Javan, its geographical locale is sometimes associated by scholars with the Teresh or Tursha, one of the groups which made up the Sea Peoples, a naval confederacy which terrorized Egypt and other Mediterranean nations around 1200 BCE.
- Biblical
- Biblical Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Tiras
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tiras is, according to the Book of Genesis and 1 Chronicles, the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Hebrew Bible. A brother of biblical Javan, its geographical locale is sometimes associated by scholars with the Teresh or Tursha, one of the groups which made up the Sea Peoples, a naval confederacy which terrorized Egypt and other Mediterranean nations around 1200 BCE.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Biblical
- Biblical Hebrew
The Story of Tiras
Tiras first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1976, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1999: 10 births, good for #6,042 nationwide. About 29% of every Tiras on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Tiras last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 207 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Tiras
Tiras is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1976 and has accumulated 207 births in the dataset. Tiras's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #6,042. Use the chart and map above to compare Tiras's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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