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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 384,523 of them was named Tiernan, which outranked 14.3% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 24,133 of them was named Tiernan, which outranked 88.0% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,721Mehki87
- #1,721Sky87
- #1,721Tyren87
- #1,728Tiernan86
- #1,728Aamir86
- #1,728Amauri86
- #1,728Cornell86
- #1,741Ammar85
- #1,741Ashtyn85
- #1,741Bill85
Tied with 12 names at #1,728; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.