Buffie
Feminine
Buffie is a household name that reached a national audience through a television family, and it began the way household names usually do — as a small child's attempt at something longer.
How old is the name Buffie?
Buffie first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Buffie alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 800 people named Buffie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Buffie most popular?
Buffie peaked in 1968, reaching #1123 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Buffie
A network comedy about an architect raising his brother's orphaned children gave one of them this name, ran for five seasons in the late sixties, and the record moves with it — a rise while the show was on, a fall afterward. What is worth noticing is what the writers were doing: they needed a name that would signal a particular kind of child, warm and small and not quite formal, and they reached for the class of names that come out of nurseries rather than out of dictionaries. Those names work on screen precisely because they sound like something a family made up, which is what they are.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No word behind it. Names of this kind come from a sibling's mispronunciation, a family joke, or a sound a baby made, and the formal name they replace is frequently not recorded anywhere. Elizabeth is the commonest guess and is only a guess.
Pronouncing Buffie
BUF-ee
Two syllables, stress at the front. Identical to Buffy.
Nicknames for Buffie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 197092 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1123reached in 1968
- Change vs 1983
- −25.0%6 in 1985, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Buffies among us
people named Buffie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Buffie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is warm and cheerful on sight, as household names are.
- It is short and impossible to mispronounce.
- It is genuinely rare in current use.
- For younger Americans the name belongs to a different television character entirely.
- It reads as a nickname, so a formal name will be assumed.
- There is no meaning and no recoverable long form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Buffies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Buffie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Buffie in 2025?
- Buffie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Buffie with classmates?
- Buffie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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