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Tierney

Gender
Mostly girls
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Tierney is a name, meaning “descendant of Tiarnach”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

What does Tierney mean?

“descendant of Tiarnach”

A female given name.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Tierney a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Tierney has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US.

How popular is Tierney in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 58 girls.

Half of all the girls named Tierney in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2007. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 58 in 20002023
Tierney in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20233#5,929
20221#7,487
20213#5,824
20204#4,744
20194#4,904
20183#5,896
20172#7,588
20160–
20159#2,855
201412#2,320
20135#4,267
201215#2,005
201114#2,032
201012#2,234
200919#1,556
200826#1,215
200721#1,374
200632#975
200546#724
200433#882
200342#720
200232#829
200140#701
200058#543
199945#633
199848#604
199743#657
199621#1,024

How popular is Tierney in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,131st among girls
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 54% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Tierney, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,281st. Its busiest year was 1993, with 172 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.

2025 had fewer girls named Tierney than any year since 1978.

Half of all the girls named Tierney in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1957Busiest: 172 in 19932025
Tierney in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202418#6,391
202334#4,189
202223#5,462
202130#4,503
202047#3,281
201951#3,129
201847#3,345
201749#3,247
201662#2,761
201548#3,346
201464#2,712
201356#2,972
201263#2,769
201189#2,143
201059#2,905
2009100#2,041
200886#2,267
200774#2,509
200682#2,308
200577#2,312
2004100#1,882
200398#1,873
2002100#1,789
200194#1,857
2000110#1,600
1999105#1,594
199895#1,673
1997103#1,560
1996102#1,549
199598#1,546
1994133#1,274
1993172#1,057
1992147#1,186
1991140#1,220
1990113#1,393
1989102#1,441
1988106#1,344
198791#1,432
198670#1,668
198577#1,561
198437#2,514
198353#1,926
198250#2,050
198157#1,887
198038#2,486
197929#2,931
197815#4,459
197724#3,175
197629#2,663
197515#4,139
197419#3,426
197313#4,361
197214#4,091
197110#5,134
197018#3,435
19699#5,056
196815#3,455
196715#3,339
196617#3,039
19659#4,493
196411#4,095
19638#4,895
19627#5,292
196110#4,238
196018#2,903
195914#3,253
195826#2,208
195746#1,587

Names like Tierney

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Ashley, Keeley, Kennedy, Kelsey, Casey, Fiona, Haley, Brynn, Abigail, Teagan, Mckinley, Bailey

Names related to Tierney

Tiernan, Tierna, Tierany

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Tierney: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tierney, updated 20 October 2026.