Tiernan

Where Tiernan comes from

From Irish Tiarnán, from Tiarna (“lord”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tiernan
Along the way
  1. 1985
    First appearance
    #6,523 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2007
    Peak, #1,728
    86 babies named Tiernan — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,161.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Tiernan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.