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Tifany vs Tiffany

American parents have registered 340,054 Tiffanys since 1880, against 960 Tifanys. Tiffany is still ahead, with 304 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tifany 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 2010, when Tifany had 12 and Tiffany had 1,031.

Side by side

  Tifany Tiffany
Total US births 960340,054
Most in one year 6618,435
Babies in 2025 under 5304
Estimated living today 930329,000
Median age today 4139
Peak year 19821988
Best rank 1,703rd girls13th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked878th
First recorded 19661942
Girls / boys 960 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Tifanys alive today are over 41; half the Tiffanys are over 39. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tifany Tiffany
France 1,81016,780
Belgium 611,089

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: Tifany and Tiffany.