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Tiffaney vs Tiffiney

American parents have registered 2,281 Tiffaneys since 1880, against 1,040 Tiffineys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tiffaney Tiffiney

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 43 years in which either name was published, Tiffaney for 42 years and Tiffiney for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tiffaney Tiffiney
Total US births 2,2811,040
Most in one year 14263
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,200990
Median age today 4345
Peak year 19801981
Best rank 1,019th girls1,767th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19651966
Girls / boys 2,281 / 01,040 / 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 Tiffineys alive today are over 45; half the Tiffaneys are over 43. 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: Tiffaney and Tiffiney.