Tiernan Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Tiernan Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tiernan family

Profession Census Frequency
Brick Layers Labourer 2
Cotton Spinner 1
General Servant Domestic Servant 1
Piecer In Cotton Mill 1
Packer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tiernan

Name Census Frequency
John Tiernan 27
Mary Tiernan 24
James Tiernan 17
Edward Tiernan 12
Annie Tiernan 11
Patrick Tiernan 11
Catherine Tiernan 10
Margaret Tiernan 10
Ellen Tiernan 8
William Tiernan 8
Richard Tiernan 7
Elizabeth Tiernan 6
Thomas Tiernan 6
Ann Tiernan 5
Joseph Tiernan 5
Michael Tiernan 4
Sarah Tiernan 4
Bridget Tiernan 3
Caroline Tiernan 3
Francis Tiernan 3
Maria Tiernan 3
Anne Tiernan 2
Barthelomew Tiernan 2
Bernard Tiernan 2
Clara Tiernan 2

Tiernan Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ternan 86% 469
2 Tiernan 100% 269

Did you know?

The surname Tiernan is the 2nd most popular variant of Ternan.

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