Tiffiny
Feminine · “showing”
Tiffany is the word Epiphany worn down in medieval English mouths. It was given to girls born around the sixth of January, the feast of the showing, and it is one of very few English names that started as a date in the church calendar and survived after the calendar stopped mattering.
How old is the name Tiffiny?
Tiffiny first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Tiffiny alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 2,300 people named Tiffiny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tiffiny most popular?
Tiffiny peaked in 1980, reaching #1009 nationally. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Theophania to Tiffiny
The story of Tiffiny
Calendar names were once ordinary: Noel and Natalie for Christmas, Pascal and Pascale for Easter, Epiphany for the sixth of January. Most of them are transparent and this one is not, because the wearing-down went so far that nobody could see the feast in it any more. That is probably why it survived — a name that had stopped looking religious could be used by anyone. It faded, came back in the twentieth century attached to a jeweller and a film, and the American record then produced a set of respellings of which this is one, writing the unstressed middle vowel as an i.
Meaning
showing, manifestation
The Greek theophaneia means an appearance of God, and the feast of the Epiphany is named from it. Medieval English wore Theophania down to Tiffania and then Tiffany.
How the name formed
- Theophania
- Tiffany
- Tiffiny
Related forms: Tiphaine
Pronouncing Tiffiny
TIF-uh-nee
Three syllables with the weight at the front. The middle vowel is reduced, so the letter chosen for it changes nothing.
Nicknames for Tiffiny
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
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 1980144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1009reached in 1980
- Change vs 2006
- 0.0%5 in 2008, 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.
Tiffiny in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiphaine in French — related form
Tiffinys among us
people named Tiffiny 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
Tiffiny 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
- Said aloud it is entirely familiar and needs no explanation.
- Tiff is a ready short form used across the whole family.
- The name has a documented medieval history that almost nobody carrying it knows about.
- Tiffany is the standard spelling and will be written instead, every time.
- It is heavily generation-marked to the nineteen-eighties.
- A jewelry firm owns the word in most people's minds.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Tiffiny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Tiffiny is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tiffiny will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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