Given name & surname
Tirrell
“one who is stubborn”·“a powerful man”
Tirrell is a variant of Terrell. Interpretations include “one who is stubborn” and “a powerful man”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tirrell is a variant of Terrell. Interpretations include “one who is stubborn” and “a powerful man”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tirrell is a variant of Terrell. Terrell has been associated with French and German naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tirrell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 793
- 780 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,854 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,854 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 530 as a first name in 2020; 1,417 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tirrell’s family of names
Tirrell has a related form in Terrell.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
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