Tiffany is the English medieval form of Greek Theophania, which means ‘manifestation of God’. Tiffany was traditionally given to girls born on the Epiphany (January 6), the festival commemorating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus.
Tiffany is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Tiffany isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Tiffany ranks 536. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Tiffany. In the entire USA, approximately 334,971 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Tiffany. That is 0.10 % of all living Americans.
Tiffany is the English medieval form of Greek Theophania, which means ‘manifestation of God’. Tiffany was traditionally given to girls born on the Epiphany (January 6), the festival commemorating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus.
The name Tiffany... bearly died out after the Middle Ages, but was revived by the movie 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961).
This was a real surprise! Tiffany is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #13 in the year 1988, when 18,437 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made Tiffany much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tiffany was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Tiffany ranked 840 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 289 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Tiffany will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Tiffany is one of them. However, Tiffany is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Florida seem to particularly fancy this name – the 18,283 women called Tiffany who live here are 0,372% of all female residents and push their name up to #43, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Florida.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Tiffany has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tiffany and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tiffany, you can simply say:
Tiger
Igloo
Fox
Fox
Apple
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tiffany
Tiffany
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
I
F
F
A
N
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
I
F
F
A
N
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tiffany sounds like this:
