Girls' name · peaked in 1988

Tiffany name popularity since 1925

340,054 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Tiffany. Half of them were born in 1986 or earlier, so the typical Tiffany is about 40 years old in 2026. Tiffany peaked in 1988 as the #13 name for girls, and it ranked #880 in 2025.

Key facts

US babies since 1925
340,054
Named Tiffany, 1925–2025
Peak year
1988
#13 for girls that year
Typical age
About 40
Median birth year 1986
In 2025
#880
for girls in 2025 (304 babies)
Girls / boys
99.7% girls
338,864 girls · 1,190 boys
Most popular in
Florida
1.49× its national share

Peak year is the year Tiffany made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Tiffany births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Tiffany per year, 1925–2025

1988 was the biggest year for Tiffany both by count and as a share of all babies.

  • Fastest rise: Between 1962 and 1967, Tiffany became 11× more common, from 1 in 11,400 baby girls to 1 in 1,000.
  • Steepest fall: Between 1996 and 2001, its share of baby girls fell by 57%, from 1 in 285 to 1 in 669.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Tiffany's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Tiffany.

Decade by decade

Babies named Tiffany in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade GirlsBoys Rank
1925–29 00 –
1930s 00 Under 5
1940s 870 #3,992
1950s 1190 #3,363
1960s 8,48044 #390
1970s 65,158269 #37
1980s 158,625667 #23
1990s 77,534188 #46
2000s 20,18822 #196
2010s 6,7990 #495
2020–25 1,8740 #880

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

60.9% of babies named Tiffany from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Tiffany by generation Baby Boomers born 1946–64 0.3% Gen X born 1965–80 26.3% Millennials born 1981–96 60.9% Gen Z born 1997–2012 10.8% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 1.7%

Where Tiffany is most popular

The index compares Tiffany's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Tiffany.

StateIndexBabies
Florida1.49×18,382
Hawaii1.47×1,571
Alaska1.38×699
Utah1.37×3,995
Georgia1.34×12,666

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Tiffany and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

SpellingGirlsPeak year
Tiffany (this page) 338,864 1988
Tiffani 14,919 1981
Tiffanie 9,047 1980
Tiffiny 2,388 1980
Tiffaney 2,281 1980

Names with a similar story

Of the other 499 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Tiffany's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Tiffany.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Tiffany (1988).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data