Tierney
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #8,732
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 172 births
- Debut · girls
- 46 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,956since 1957
Tierney over time
Rank among girls' names. Tierney has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #7,133 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,346 | 47 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,346 | 48 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,714 | 64 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,143 | 89 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,041 | 100 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,308 | 82 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,883 | 100 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,874 | 98 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,791 | 100 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,861 | 94 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,602 | 110 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,596 | 105 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,675 | 95 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,551 | 102 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,550 | 98 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,277 | 133 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,059 | 172 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,188 | 147 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,224 | 140 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,397 | 113 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,444 | 102 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,345 | 106 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,562 | 77 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,927 | 53 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,887 | 57 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,486 | 38 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,209 | 26 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,588 | 46 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tierney! It came in at #1,588, and was given to 46 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1963, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tierney
- 739 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #7,133)
- 3,852 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #7,133)
- 3,787 spots since 2015 (#3,346 → #7,133)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1993 at #1,059 (172 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,518 girls born in 1993 were named Tierney (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.5% of all girls named Tierney (1,208) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 86 | #1,588 (1957) | #2,350 |
| 1960s | 119 | #2,904 (1960) | #4,082 |
| 1970s | 186 | #2,664 (1976) | #3,782 |
| 1980s | 681 | #1,345 (1988) | #1,832 |
| 1990s | 1,208 | #1,059 (1993) | #1,408 |
| 2000s | 921 | #1,602 (2000) | #2,045 |
| 2010s | 588 | #2,143 (2011) | #2,934 |
| 2020s | 167 | #3,281 (2020) | #5,162 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tierney in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 19,106 of them was named Tierney, which outranked 89.2% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,424Shoshana92
- #1,424Skyler92
- #1,424Thelma92
- #1,433Tierney91
- #1,433Amaris91
- #1,433Brigid91
- #1,433Chassidy91
- #1,446Aubrie90
- #1,446Cami90
- #1,446Carole90
Tied with 12 names at #1,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 373,397 of them was named Tierney, which outranked 14.7% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,201 names at #6,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.