Tiffany
Masculine · “Appearance of God”
Tiffany is given to girls far more often — 338,864 girls against 1,190 boys since 1880. See Tiffany as a girl 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 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Tiffany alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,100 people named Tiffany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tiffany most popular?
Tiffany peaked in 1989, reaching #956 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
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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
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1962
- Most boys named
- 1989114 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #956reached in 1989
- Change vs 2000
- +240.0%17 in 2004, 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.
Tiffany in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiphaine in French — same name
- Teofania in Italian — related form
- Theophania in Greek — related form
Tiffanys among us
people named Tiffany 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
Tiffany 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 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 1,100 people named Tiffany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tiffany in 2025?
- Tiffany is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Tiffany will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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