Tifani
Feminine · “The showing forth”
Tifani drops both of the doubled letters that the standard spelling carries and keeps every sound. That is a rarer direction than it looks: American respelling almost always adds letters rather than removing them.
How old is the name Tifani?
Tifani first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Tifani alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 800 people named Tifani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tifani most popular?
Tifani peaked in 1981, reaching #2447 nationally. See the whole 1981 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Theophania to Tifani
The story of Tifani
The jewelry shop is younger than the name by six hundred years. It was founded by a man whose surname was Tiffany, and that surname exists because the given name was common enough in medieval England and France to leave family names behind it — so the shop is named after a man who was named after an ancestor who was named after a feast day. The order of events matters because almost everybody assumes the reverse: that the name comes from the shop, that it is a modern invention, that it is a brand. A medieval English name that survived as a surname, went to America, opened a store and then came back into use as a first name is a more interesting route than any of that.
Meaning
The showing forth — the feast of the Epiphany
The name descends from a Greek word about a divine appearance, which named the feast of the Epiphany, and it was given in the Middle Ages to girls born around that date. The spelling has traveled a long way from the Greek and the meaning has not moved at all.
How the name formed
- Theophania
- Tiffany
- Tifani
Related forms: Tiphaine · Theophania
Pronouncing Tifani
TIF-uh-nee
Three syllables, stress at the front. Identical to the standard spelling.
Nicknames for Tifani
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
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 198139 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2447reached in 1981
- Change vs 2009
- +40.0%7 in 2010, from 5
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.
Tifani in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiphaine in French — same name
- Theophania in Greek — related form
Tifanis among us
people named Tifani 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
Tifani 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
- The meaning is settled and unusually grand for a name this familiar.
- The spelling is simpler than the standard one and still read correctly.
- It is genuinely medieval, which very few names that sound modern can claim.
- Tiffany is the standard spelling and hers will be corrected to it constantly.
- The name is assumed to be modern by almost everybody.
- The jewelry association is permanent.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tifanis 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 Tifani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tifani in 2025?
- Tifani is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tifani will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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