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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Celtic, Gaelic : Lord

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Tierney

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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