Tiffany
Tiffany was given to 304 girls in 2025, #880 among girls’ names; 340,054 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 328,000 Americans named Tiffany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 35 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiffany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tiffany mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tiffany is “a female given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “Epiphany” (Theophania) and “god” (θεο-) and “god” (θεός).
From Old French Tifinie, Tiphanie, from Latin Theophania (“Epiphany”), from Ancient Greek θεο- (theo-, “god”) (combining form of θεός (theós, “god”)) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, appear”). Doublet of theophany. The given name (from circa 12th century) was usually given to girls born at Epiphany. The surname (from late 13th century) is a dialectal variant of the surname Tiffin, which derives from the given name variant Tiffania. In modern times, the given name has been (re)popularized by the surname borne by Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of jewelry company Tiffany & Co.
/ˈtɪfəni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tiffany?
#880 among girls’ names, 2025
Tiffany fell from #495 in 2015 to #880 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.36 to 0.19 per 1,000.
18,435 babies in 1988, the peak
Tiffany peaked in 1988, when 18,435 babies were given it (18,364 girls, #13 among girls’ names). The 304 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 304 | #880 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 321 | #843 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 298 | #899 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 290 | #936 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 317 | #865 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 344 | #794 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 417 | #693 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 422 | #689 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 518 | #583 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 559 | #560 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 650 | #495 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 726 | #444 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 707 | #434 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 849 | #370 | 0.48 |
| 2011 | 920 | #348 | 0.52 |
| 2010 | 1,031 | #311 | 0.58 |
| 2009 | 1,169 | #280 | 0.64 |
| 2008 | 1,377 | #250 | 0.73 |
| 2007 | 1,622 | #211 | 0.84 |
| 2006 | 1,644 | #210 | 0.86 |
| 2005 | 1,767 | #196 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,958 | #175 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,258 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 2,398 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 2,690 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | 3,305 | #101 | 1.8 |
| 1999 | 3,888 | #80 | 2.2 |
| 1998 | 4,612 | #67 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5,221 | #61 | 3.0 |
| 1996 | 6,158 | #52 | 3.5 |
| 1995 | 6,936 | #46 | 3.9 |
| 1994 | 8,096 | #35 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8,586 | #33 | 4.7 |
| 1992 | 9,722 | #32 | 5.3 |
| 1991 | 11,155 | #27 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 13,160 | #23 | 6.9 |
| 1989 | 15,716 | #16 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 18,364 | #13 | 10.3 |
| 1987 | 14,742 | #18 | 8.5 |
| 1986 | 14,483 | #17 | 8.4 |
| 1985 | 13,681 | #23 | 8.0 |
| 1984 | 15,861 | #14 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 15,959 | #14 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 17,175 | #13 | 10.1 |
| 1981 | 16,416 | #14 | 9.8 |
| 1980 | 16,228 | #14 | 9.8 |
| 1979 | 9,611 | #28 | 6.0 |
| 1978 | 7,701 | #32 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 7,205 | #34 | 4.7 |
| 1976 | 7,482 | #32 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6,919 | #37 | 4.7 |
| 1974 | 6,482 | #41 | 4.4 |
| 1973 | 5,501 | #52 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 4,844 | #61 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5,414 | #62 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 3,999 | #99 | 2.3 |
| 1969 | 2,348 | #144 | 1.4 |
| 1968 | 1,832 | #178 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 1,643 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 1966 | 1,208 | #242 | 0.71 |
| 1965 | 565 | #390 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 442 | #461 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 213 | #693 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 173 | #793 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,112 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,507 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,362 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,534 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,471 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,525 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,869 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,959 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,990 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,500 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,087 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiffany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiffany has been given almost only to girls: 1,190 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tiffany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiffany, and how old are they?
328,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 340,054 Americans ever recorded as Tiffany. The median Tiffany alive today is 40 years old; half are between 35 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 293,280 people named Tiffany (292,918 women and girls, 362 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 329,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 908 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 84,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 201,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,840 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tiffany born?
The states with the most babies named Tiffany are California, Texas and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 48 | #660 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 36 | #839 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 26 | #672 | 1.3× |
| New York | 20 | #825 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #616 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 12 | #791 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 11 | #505 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,051 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #806 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #620 | 0.5× |
Where Tiffany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tiffany is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1942 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tiffany with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 372,157 babies since 1880, Tiffany is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 304 of their 311 babies (98%), again the most given.
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 Tiffany
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 Tiffany and names like it
- Compare Tiffany and TiffaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTiffany peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiffany since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Tiffany: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Tiffany.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tiffany alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.