Thierno
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tjɛʀno/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thierno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 300(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 29K
- USUnited States1 in 419K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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(measured from records)
Thierno counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #7 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 82 | 3 | Thierno | 30 |
| SN Senegal | #35 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | 22 | Thierno | 57 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 795 | Thierno | 180 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Thierno | 5 |
| US United States | — | 793 | 1 in 419K | 782 | Thierno | 132 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Thierno | 30 |
| MR Mauritania | #168 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Thierno | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thierno Alioub. 1850GNGuinean writer and judge (1850-1927)
- Thierno Faty Sowb. 1941SNSenegalese film director, screenwriter and actor (1941-2009)
- Thierno Youmb. 1960SNSenegalese footballer
- Thierno Thiamb. 1972SNSenegalese-Italian actor
- Thierno Bahb. 1982GNGuinean footballer
- Thierno Niangb. 1990SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1990)
- Thierno Niangb. 1992SNSenegalese association football player
- Thierno Barryb. 2000ESGuinean association football player
- Thierno Barryb. 2002FRFrench footballer (born 2002)
- Mamadou Thierno Barryb. 2005SNSenegalese association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 795 | #1,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 782 | #14,753 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 22 | #49 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 16 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Thierno?
- A machine transcription gives /tjɛʀno/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Thierno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 152 thousand people named Thierno in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thierno.
- How common is the name Thierno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 793 people named Thierno in 2020, about 1 in 419 thousand residents.
- How common is Thierno compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Thierno is the 7th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thierno?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thiernoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 7th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.