Tiffany
- Pronunciation
- [Ti-ffa-ny]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Appearance Of God
- Origin
- French
About the Name Tiffany
Tiffany descends from the Old French Tiphaine, ultimately from the Greek Theophania (Theophany) meaning "appearance of God" or "manifestation of God" — referring to the iconic Christian feast of Epiphany (January 6). The name was traditionally given to children born on or near the Epiphany feast day.
The name's overwhelming modern American cultural anchor is the iconic American jewelry brand Tiffany & Co. (founded 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany, anchoring the Tiffany name in American luxury culture for nearly two centuries) and the iconic 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's (the iconic film starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly). The name's iconic American 1980s pop culture anchor is American singer Tiffany (Tiffany Renee Darwish, born 1971, the iconic American teen pop singer whose 1987 song "I Think We're Alone Now" made her one of the foundational figures of 1980s American teen pop).
Tiffany held a US top-25 girls' rank from 1980 through 1995 — about fifteen years of consistent American popularity, peaking around 1987 (the year of the singer Tiffany's hit) at #16 in the United States. The name has receded since but remains in steady use, currently sitting in the US top 300 girls' rank. The name's appeal is its layered Greek-Old French-Christian-American pedigree combined with three flowing syllables — the in-built Epiphany religious anchor, the strong Tiffany & Co. American luxury brand cultural anchor and Tiffany singer 1980s pop cultural anchor, and the elegant Latinate sophistication. Three flowing syllables, soft consonants, and the name reads as both classical-Greek and contemporary American. Common nicknames Tiff (the dominant warm short form, casual and warm), Tiffy, Fanny, and the rare Anny each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Tiffany, Tiffanee, and Tifany have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Tiphaine (French original), Theofania (Greek original), and the original Greek Theophania.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Tiffany
US Popularity History (1970–2025)
Annual US births named Tiffany by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1988 with 18,363 girls named Tiffany (girl rank #13 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #880 for girls (304 US births). That's 867 places below its 1988 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Tiffany Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Tiffany the strongest states are California, Nevada, New York.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #473 | 770 |
| 2 | Nevada | #501 | 32 |
| 3 | New York | #562 | 324 |
| 4 | Connecticut | #581 | 16 |
| 5 | Maryland | #594 | 78 |
| 6 | Massachusetts | #616 | 74 |
| 7 | Florida | #621 | 231 |
| 8 | New Jersey | #641 | 105 |
| 9 | Texas | #699 | 435 |
| 10 | Virginia | #734 | 90 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio | #1,090 | 30 |
| 2 | North Carolina | #908 | 42 |
| 3 | Wisconsin | #871 | 24 |
| 4 | South Carolina | #857 | 16 |
| 5 | Tennessee | #852 | 26 |
| 6 | Georgia | #828 | 78 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | #818 | 48 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #807 | 33 |
| 9 | Michigan | #804 | 31 |
| 10 | Washington | #772 | 46 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Tiffany in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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