Thierno

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Thierno is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 287
  • FRFrance1 in 85K
  • ESSpain1 in 117K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.1K

across 9 countries

Sources
170

14K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 85K

France

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Thierno is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal#342,348824 rec.22Thierno52
BE Belgium828794 rec.1Thierno27
FR France7957.2K rec.1 in 85K795Thierno170
US United States7822K rec.1 in 425K782Thierno126
ES Spain427563 rec.1 in 117K427Thierno36
IT Italy374397 rec.3Thierno28
GN Guinea#6297827 rec.3Thierno28
AR Argentina21379 rec.4Thierno6
BR Brazil17527 rec.Thierno16
CA Canada135123 rec.1Thierno36
CI Côte d’Ivoire118125 rec.Thierno6
GB United Kingdom8336 rec.Thierno18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • French18K68%
  • English2.9K11%
  • Spanish2K7%
  • Portuguese5222%
  • Catalan4272%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French17,71468%
English2,92211%
Spanish1,9637%
Portuguese5222%
Catalan4272%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Thierno is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name40 records spelled Thierno8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Senegal, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Tierno, Тьерно, Тиерно

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time

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Thierno in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1996–2025
Yearrecords
19965
19979
19988
199913
200014
200113
200214
20039
200413
200511
200616
200718
200813
200914
201016
201117
201213
201312
201410
201516
20169
201719
20185
201919
202014
202122
202215
202320
202414
202521

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)30 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

18501900195020002050Thierno Aliou, b. 1850Thierno Faty Sow, b. 1941Thierno Youm, b. 1960Thierno Thiam, b. 1972Thierno Bah, b. 1982Thierno Niang, b. 1990Thierno Niang, b. 1992Thierno Barry, b. 2000Thierno Barry, b. 2002Mamadou Thierno Barry, b. 2005

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Thierno
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024795#1,012
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020782#14,753
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)427#5,084
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)347#2,734
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)37#8,058
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)34#14,637
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)25#23,598
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)25#22,132
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)202422#49
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202122
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202521
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)20#24,866

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thierno?
We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Thierno (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Thierno have the most bearers?
Thierno is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled thierno.
How common is Thierno compared with other names?
In Senegal, Thierno is the 34th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
Is Thierno a male or female name?
Thierno is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thierno” — the 34th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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