girls:
195 births since 1989
#5521 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1985
#3213 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1985
#6125 (21st percentile)
The name Tiernan is the #6,125 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,621 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 20.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,213 (29.9% percentile) for all time with 1,426 births since 1985. For girls, it ranks #5,521 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 195 births since 1989.
Tiernan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for boys and 1989 for girls). Birth data for Tiernan is available in 36 out of the 39 years between 1985 and 2023 (36 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tiernan has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Tiernan were boys.
For boys, Tiernan reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 9.2% percentile (ranked #802) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tiernan ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 47.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tiernan reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #880) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tiernan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Tiernan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Tiernan is pronounced as TIHR-nuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEAR-nuhn, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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