Tierney

girls:

3.9k births since 1957

#2757 (52nd percentile)

boys:

23 births since 1976

#4563 (0th percentile)

overall:

3.9k births since 1957

#4378 (43rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tierney".

1957 2023 19572023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,923
Peak Births
172
Peak Year
1993
First Recorded
1957
Peak Percentile
19.3%
Current Percentile
3.1%
Peak Rank
#698
Current Rank
#918
Female statistics
Total Births
23
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
2006
First Recorded
1976
Peak Percentile
0.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#656
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Tierney

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tierney. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 74.4% confident that Tierney is pronounced as TIHR-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is TEAR-nee, at 18.6% confidence.

TIHR-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
74.4% confidence
T IH1 R N IY0
TEAR-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
18.6% confidence
T IY1 R N IY0
tee-er-NEE (3 syllables)
7.0% confidence
T IY0 ER0 N IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Tierney. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Tierney, please vote using the thumbs up button.

TIH-ruh-nee (3 syllables)
8 names 249 births
T IH1 R AH0 N IY0
TEE-ruh-nee (3 syllables)
5 names 217 births
T IY1 R AH0 N IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like T IH1 R N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.