Tiffany

293,280 people in America carry this name — ranked #177 of 923.

Carried mostly by the Millennials.

Say it TIH fuh nee

3 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

T IH1 F AH0 N IY0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 293,280 2020 Census
  • As a surname 4,572 ranked #7,067 the other way round

What Tiffany means and where it comes from

Greek in origin, reading literally as “divine manifestation”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

How often Tiffany has been given

338,503 babies were given this name since 1942. The busiest year was 1988, with 18,437 of them.

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Most people carrying it were born in the 1980s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

What goes well after Tiffany

Three syllables already, so a short middle name keeps the whole from running long.

Better avoided

  • Tiffany Tammy — same opening
  • Tiffany Tracy — same opening
  • Tiffany Tina — same opening

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

Going quiet

Tiffany has more than halved in three decades. The people carrying it belong mostly to the Millennials.

Boys or girls: who is called Tiffany?

0.1% men
292,918 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

The same name abroad

  • Tiphaïne French
  • Theophanie French
  • Theophania Ger.|Lat
  • Theophanes Latin

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

Full names people carry

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Greek origin