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Tifany vs Tiffaney

American parents have registered 2,281 Tiffaneys since 1880, against 960 Tifanys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tifany against Tiffaney, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tifany Tiffaney

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

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Tiffaney for 36 years and Tifany for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tifany Tiffaney
Total US births 9602,281
Most in one year 66142
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9302,200
Median age today 4143
Peak year 19821980
Best rank 1,703rd girls1,019th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661965
Girls / boys 960 / 02,281 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Tiffaneys alive today are over 43; half the Tifanys are over 41. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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