Tierney

Tierney is the 2,656th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,238 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,238
Rank: 2,656th
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized from Gaelic Ó Tiarnaigh "descendant of Tiarnach", a diminutive of tiarna (“lord, master”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tierney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Tierney

Gene Tierney (1920–1991)American actress
Kieran Tierney (born 1997)Scottish association football player
Maura Tierney (born 1965)American actress
Lawrence Tierney (1919–2002)American actor
Jacob Tierney (born 1979)Canadian actor and director

People named Tierney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tierney

Tieu

Also a first name

Tierney has been given to 3,979 American babies as a first name since 1957, peaking in 1993. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.