Tierney

Where Tierney comes from

Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Tiarnaigh "descendant of Tiarnach", a diminutive of tiarna (“lord, master”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tierney
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #1,588 among girls, 46 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #1,059
    172 babies named Tierney — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,314.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

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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.