Tiffany
Feminine · “Appearance of God”
Tiffany is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 338,864 girls against 1,190 boys since 1880. See Tiffany as a boy name
The shape of every engagement ring in the western world was designed in one shop in New York. Before it, a diamond was set down into a band with metal around the edges; the setting introduced under this name lifted the stone up on six prongs so that light could get underneath it, and everybody has copied it since.
How old is the name Tiffany?
Tiffany first appears in US birth records in 1942 — 83 years ago. The typical Tiffany alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 329,000 people named Tiffany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tiffany most popular?
Tiffany peaked in 1982, reaching #13 nationally. Today it ranks #878, 865 places below that high. See the whole 1982 chart.
Where it comes from
From Theophaneia to Tiffany
The story of Tiffany
The shop that introduced the setting was founded by a merchant and inherited by a son who did not want it. Louis Comfort Tiffany trained as a painter, became obsessed with glass, and spent his life on windows, lamps and vases in a technique nobody else could match; he ran his own studios while the jewelry business went on without him, and only took over the family firm's artistic direction late. The glass is what carries his name now. The setting, the shop, the blue box and the windows are all one surname, which came from a family, which came from a given name, which came from a feast day that almost nobody who buys a ring has heard of.
Meaning
Appearance of God
Greek theophaneia, the showing of a god, which is the feast now called Epiphany; medieval English wore the word down until it came out as Tiffany, and girls born around the sixth of January were given it. The connection was completely forgotten by the modern period, which is why the name sounds invented and is not.
How the name formed
- Theophaneia
- Tiffania
- Tiffany
Related forms: Tiphaine · Teofania · Theophania
Pronouncing Tiffany
TIF-uh-nee
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The middle vowel is reduced to nothing, which is why the record also holds Tiffani, Tiffiny and Tiffany, all said the same way.
Nicknames for Tiffany
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
- 1961 — Breakfast at Tiffany's
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1942
- Most girls named
- 198818,364 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #13reached in 1982
- Change vs 2023
- +2.0%304 in 2025, from 298
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.
Tiffany in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiphaine in French — same name
- Teofania in Italian — related form
- Theophania in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Tiffanys among us
people named Tiffany are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 5,287 born in 2025 was named Tiffany
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cheryl test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tiffany's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cheryl climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cheryl's path sketches the road Tiffany is walking now.
Tiffany sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tiffany is headed
Tiffany should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tiffany beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tiffany in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spoken name is completely established and never needs to be repeated.
- It has a documented history running back eight hundred years, which almost nobody expects.
- Two short forms in different registers, one blunt and one soft.
- The name is closely dated to the nineteen-eighties in American ears and reads as of that decade.
- The record carries it for boys in small numbers, so it is not quite an absolute signal.
- The luxury association is immediate and unavoidable in any English-speaking country.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tiffanys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 329,000 people named Tiffany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tiffany in 2025?
- Tiffany ranks #878 among US girl names in 2025, with 304 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tiffany?
- About 1 in every 5,287 US girls born in 2025 was named Tiffany — 304 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tiffany with classmates?
- Tiffany will almost certainly be the only one in school.
- What explains the spikes and dips on Tiffany's chart?
- Tiffany climbed after 1961 — Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Ranked beside Tiffany
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Siya#878 · Giovanna#878 · Lyanna#877 · Emi#881 · Kylee#875 · Colbie#881 · Kahlani#875 · Odette#881
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