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Tifany vs Tiffiny

American parents have registered 2,388 Tiffinys since 1880, against 960 Tifanys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tifany Tiffiny

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 48 years in which either name was published, Tiffiny for 35 years and Tifany for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tifany Tiffiny
Total US births 9602,388
Most in one year 66144
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9302,300
Median age today 4144
Peak year 19821980
Best rank 1,703rd girls1,009th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661964
Girls / boys 960 / 02,388 / 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 Tiffinys alive today are over 44; half the Tifanys are over 41. That is 3 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 Tiffiny.