as a Last Name
- 13,503
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Tierney
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced form of O’Tierney, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tíghearnaigh ‘descendant of Tighearnach’, a byname meaning ‘lord’, ‘master’. The Gaelic name is sometimes ‘translated’ as English Lord.
| 2,314th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,503
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Tierney per capita
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