Last name: TIERNEY
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TIERNEY : This last name is indexed 53,092 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
TIERNEY : Irish: shortened 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. Compare Tiernan.
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