When Teraimateata TEUPOORAUTOA was born on 27 September 1938, in Huahine, Leeward Islands, French Polynesia, his father, Hapairaitutu i Teraimateata a TEUPOORAUTOA, was 29 and his mother, Tetuanuiraivaru PAATI, was 24. He married TOIMATATUA IOTEFA on 10 December 1977, in Fare, French Polynesia. He died on 19 October 2015, in Fare, French Polynesia, at the age of 77.