Buffi
Buffi was last recorded in 1981, when 5 babies were given it; 194 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Buffi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Buffi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,607, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1975, the peak
Buffi peaked in 1975, when 22 girls were given it, #3,169 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #10,607 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,758 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,604 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,935 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,696 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,169 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,248 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,652 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,141 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,178 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 19 | #3,322 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,799 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,815 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,360 | 9.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Buffi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Buffi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Buffi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Buffi, and how old are they?
An estimated 181 Americans named Buffi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 50 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 183 people named Buffi (181 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 184 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Buffi?
Buffi is a less common spelling of Buffy: SSA has recorded 194 Buffi and 3,312 Buffy since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,471 babies since 1880, Buffi is the third most given (4.3% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Buffi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Buffi and names like it
- Compare Buffi and BuffyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBuffi peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Buffi since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Buffi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Buffi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.