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Tiffany vs Tiffiney

American parents have registered 340,054 Tiffanys since 1880, against 1,040 Tiffineys. Tiffany is still ahead, with 304 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tiffany 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

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 1968, when Tiffany had 1,837 and Tiffiney had 20.

Side by side

  Tiffany Tiffiney
Total US births 340,0541,040
Most in one year 18,43563
Babies in 2025 304under 5
Estimated living today 329,000990
Median age today 3945
Peak year 19881981
Best rank 13th girls1,767th girls
Rank in 2025 878thunranked
First recorded 19421966
Girls / boys 338,864 / 1,1901,040 / 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 Tiffanys are over 39. That is 6 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: Tiffany and Tiffiney.