Meaning not yet researched.
Tierney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,062 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,062 in 1993; #7,456 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tierney in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,456 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,062.
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Tierney: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,062 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 172 (1993).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Tierney, making it the 7,456th most common girls’ name of the year, down 837 places from #6,619 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 18 girls named Tierney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,062, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 172. For comparison, it was #3,385 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tierney in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 46 babies. In all, 3,979 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,213 babies named Tierney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 376 US girls were named Tierney; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tierny, Tearney and Teirney are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tierny (30), Tearney (11), Teirney (7), Tierni (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tierney in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,456 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,618 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 2013 | 56 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,327 | 8 | #9,491 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,564 | 5 | #10,403 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1993 | 172 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1992 | 147 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1991 | 140 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1988 | 106 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,445 | 5 | #8,040 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,666 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,721 | 5 | #6,422 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,279 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,505 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,420 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,801 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,258 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,611 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).