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    The surname Tierno

    A Spanish place surname, carried by 607 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T650

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tierno is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Spanish Tierno, a nickname from tierno (“tender, soft”). * Borrowed from Italian Tierno, a habitational surname.

    Tierno is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 607 people named Tierno in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 607.

    #36,788
    rank among US surnames
    607
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #35,153)

    Who is named Tierno

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Tierno identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Tierno

    Tierno has the Soundex code T650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T650.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tierno come from?
    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Spanish Tierno, a nickname from tierno (“tender, soft”). * Borrowed from Italian Tierno, a habitational surname.
    How common is the surname Tierno?
    607 people in the United States had the surname Tierno in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. It ranked 36,788th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tierno?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Tierno identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Tierno?
    Tierno is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Tierno getting more or less common?
    About as common. 607 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 607 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.