Thierry
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Germanic *theud- 'people' + *rīk- 'power, ruler'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tiʁi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thierry is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 328(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 487
- CMCameroon≈1 in 545
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 328 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Germanic *theud- 'people' + *rīk- 'power, ruler'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thierry 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #41 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | 289K | Thierry | 447 |
| CM Cameroon | #22 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | — | Thierry | 48 |
| BE Belgium | #39 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 487 | 52 | Thierry | 182 |
| CN China | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Thierry | 30 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #195 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Thierry | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | #152 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 101 | Thierry | 141 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,948 | 1 in 43K | 4.9K | — | 3 |
| LU Luxembourg | #66 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 468 | — | Thierry | 85 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Thierry is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Germanic Theodoric ‘people ruler’. Compare English }Terry in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, a male given name, equivalent to English Theodoric or Derek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, De Théodoric; origine germanique, « peuple roi ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du germanique Theodoric, « souverain du peuple ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French form of the Germanic name Theodoric ; See also TERRY , DIETRICH , and DEREK .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Theuderic Ib. 485not in their usual nameFrankish King
- Theuderic IIb. 587FRnot in their usual nameKing of Burgundy
- Theuderic IIIb. 657FRnot in their usual nameKing of the Franks
- Theuderic IVb. 712not in their usual nameFrankish king
- Roman Polanskib. 1933FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
- Thierry Lhermitteb. 1952FRFrench actor, director and screenwriter
- Thierry Arbogastb. 1957FRFrench cinematographer
- Thierry Vigneronb. 1960FRFrench pole vaulter
- Thierry Laureyb. 1964FRFrench footballer
- Thierry Henryb. 1977FRFrench association football player and manager (born 1977)
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 84 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 289K | #2,157 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.9K | #2,758 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.9K | #4,782 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 485 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 50 | #2,758 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Thierry?
- A machine transcription gives /tiʁi/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Thierry mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *theud- 'people' + *rīk- 'power, ruler' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Thierry a male or female name?
- Thierry 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.
- What are other forms of the name Thierry?
- In the etymology graph, Derek, Derrick and Dirk are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Thierry have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 207 thousand people named Thierry in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thierry.
- How common is the name Thierry?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,948 people named Thierry in 2022, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Thierry compared with other names?
- In France, Thierry is the 41st most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thierryThe 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, “Thierry” — the 41st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.