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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Tierney is popular in 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#620 · 1 in 4,995
- Tennessee#642 · 1 in 4,883
- Missouri#725 · 1 in 5,918
- Illinois#1,045 · 1 in 9,070
- Pennsylvania#1,149 · 1 in 12,471
Best ever in a state: #242 in Tennessee, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #620 | 5 | 1 in 4,995 |
| Tennessee | #642 | 6 | 1 in 4,883 |
| Missouri | #725 | 5 | 1 in 5,918 |
| Illinois | #1,045 | 8 | 1 in 9,070 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,149 | 5 | 1 in 12,471 |
| California | #1,648 | 13 | 1 in 18,045 |
| Texas | #1,927 | 6 | 1 in 22,742 |
| New York | #1,961 | 5 | 1 in 21,504 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 17,944 of them was named Tierney, which outranked 90.2% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,542Maren99
- #1,542Susie99
- #1,542Tamra99
- #1,550Tierney98
- #1,550Annelise98
- #1,550Cera98
- #1,550Elvia98
- #1,562Abriana97
- #1,562Adela97
- #1,562Aida97
Tied with 11 names at #1,550; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.