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Tifani vs Tiffany

American parents have registered 340,054 Tiffanys since 1880, against 872 Tifanis. Tiffany is still ahead, with 304 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tifani against Tiffany, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tifani Tiffany

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tiffany has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1942 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1967, when Tifani had 12 and Tiffany had 1,650.

Side by side

  Tifani Tiffany
Total US births 872340,054
Most in one year 3918,435
Babies in 2025 under 5304
Estimated living today 840329,000
Median age today 3939
Peak year 19811988
Best rank 2,447th girls13th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked878th
First recorded 19671942
Girls / boys 872 / 0338,864 / 1,190

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tifani Tiffany
France 2016,780
England and Wales 34,695

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tifani and Tiffany.