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Tiffiney vs Tiffini

American parents have registered 1,290 Tiffinis since 1880, against 1,040 Tiffineys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tiffiney against Tiffini, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tiffiney Tiffini

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 41 years in which either name was published, Tiffini for 29 years and Tiffiney for 12 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Tiffiney Tiffini
Total US births 1,0401,290
Most in one year 6371
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9901,200
Median age today 4543
Peak year 19811980
Best rank 1,767th girls1,624th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661964
Girls / boys 1,040 / 01,290 / 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 Tiffinis 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: Tiffiney and Tiffini.