Tiernan
Tiernan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200786 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1985
- 1,647people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,452 boys have been named Tiernan in the United States since 1985, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 86 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 45%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 195 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Tiernan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Tiernan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shaydenpeak 2008
- Iziahpeak 2008
- Jayshawnpeak 2010
- Izayapeak 2006
- Taytonpeak 2005
- Nevanpeak 2004
- Javeonpeak 2008
- Adityapeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.