Tiffeny
Feminine · “The showing forth”
Tiffeny is a respelling of a name that is genuinely medieval, and the feast it was given for is about outsiders arriving — the showing of a birth to people from somewhere else entirely.
How old is the name Tiffeny?
Tiffeny first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Tiffeny alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 800 people named Tiffeny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tiffeny most popular?
Tiffeny peaked in 1981, reaching #1912 nationally. See the whole 1981 chart.
Where it comes from
From Theophania to Tiffeny
The story of Tiffeny
The feast marks the arrival of visitors from outside — foreigners, following a star, arriving at a house in a country not their own and being received. That is the whole content of the day, and it is why it has been the bigger celebration than Christmas across much of southern Europe and Latin America: it is the feast of the world noticing, rather than of the birth itself. A name given for that day in medieval England was saying something quite specific about when a child arrived, in the way that Noel and Natalie do — and then it survived as a sound long after anybody was counting feast days.
Meaning
The showing forth — the feast of the Epiphany
The Greek word is about a divine appearance and named the feast; girls born around it were given the name in medieval England and France. The altered vowel here is in an unstressed syllable and changes nothing.
How the name formed
- Theophania
- Tiffany
- Tiffeny
Related forms: Tiphaine
Pronouncing Tiffeny
TIF-uh-nee
Three syllables, stress at the front. The altered vowel is unstressed and not audible.
Nicknames for Tiffeny
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 198156 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1912reached in 1981
- Change vs 2000
- −44.4%5 in 2003, from 9
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.
Tiffeny in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiphaine in French — same name
Tiffenys among us
people named Tiffeny 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
Tiffeny 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 familiar name.
- It is read correctly on sight.
- It is medieval, which almost nobody expects.
- Tiffany is the standard spelling and hers will be corrected to it constantly.
- The altered letter is inaudible, so she will spell it rather than say it.
- The jewelry association is permanent.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tiffenys 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 Tiffeny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tiffeny in 2025?
- Tiffeny is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tiffeny with classmates?
- Tiffeny will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More T names
The most-given names starting with T, all years combined.
Teresa#908 · Theresa#1548 · Tiffany#878 · Tammy#3645 · Taylor#403 · Tina#2778 · Tracy#2153 · Thelma#4661
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