Tiernan
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to boys 88.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 86 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,481since 1985
Tiernan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,757 | 29 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,347 | 35 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,151 | 38 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,497 | 32 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,230 | 24 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,516 | 49 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,364 | 53 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,924 | 73 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #1,774 | 85 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #1,861 | 78 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,728 | 86 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #1,994 | 67 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,854 | 69 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #1,815 | 68 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #1,885 | 62 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #1,998 | 55 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | — | #2,450 | 35 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #5,942 | 8 |
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| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tiernan! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tiernan is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Colorado#647 · 1 in 5,044
- New York#1,171 · 1 in 12,171
- California#1,654 · 1 in 28,923
Best ever in a state: #322 in Connecticut, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #647 | 6 | 1 in 5,044 |
| New York | #1,171 | 9 | 1 in 12,171 |
| California | #1,654 | 9 | 1 in 28,923 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tiernan
- 315 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #3,757)
- 941 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #3,757)
- 1,116 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2007 at #1,728 (86 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,336 boys born in 2009 were named Tiernan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,728 in 2007, was only 1 in 24,133 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.6% of all boys named Tiernan (660) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1990, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 15 | #6,523 (1985) | #7,233 |
| 1990s | 162 | #2,300 (1999) | #4,335 |
| 2000s | 660 | #1,728 (2007) | #1,936 |
| 2010s | 464 | #1,905 (2011) | #2,882 |
| 2020s | 180 | #3,151 (2022) | #3,754 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tiernan in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 172,837 of them was named Tiernan, which outranked 50.7% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,286Zaraya12
- #9,286Zionah12
- #9,286Zophia12
- #9,901Tiernan11
- #9,901Aamina11
- #9,901Aamya11
- #9,901Aarohi11
- #10,611Aaleeyah10
- #10,611Aaleigha10
- #10,611Aaliayah10
Tied with 709 names at #9,901; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 30,676 of them was named Tiernan, which outranked 85.8% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,967Teegan68
- #1,967Vito68
- #1,967Zuriel68
- #1,994Tiernan67
- #1,994Damir67
- #1,994Denton67
- #1,994Gil67
- #2,010Adiel66
- #2,010Adler66
- #2,010Ammar66
Tied with 15 names at #1,994; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.