Tiffany
Meaning
from Greek 'theophania' (manifestation of God), a medieval name for girls born near Epiphany
The story
Tiffany descends from Greek Theophania, the manifestation of God, a name recorded for girls born around Epiphany. Its modern American life has two engines. Breakfast at Tiffany's attached the jeweler's gleam to it in 1961, and the curve, already climbing through the 1960s and 1970s, hit its peak in the 1980s, the exact years a sixteen-year-old mall-tour singer named Tiffany took I Think We're Alone Now to number one in 1987. The name has eased every decade since but never left, and its secret stays intact: under the shopping-bag shine sits one of the oldest and most reverent etymologies in the book, a church-calendar name wearing designer sunglasses. The double life is the pleasure of it, glamour on the surface and theology underneath, a private joke the name never tires of telling.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Tiffany peaked in the 1980s.
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Popularity in Brazil
3,869 people · the #3,264 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 52,632 · median age 14
Among people named Tiffany living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 433 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Tiffany
Most people given the name Tiffany in the United States were born between 1980 and 1999. The Tiffany you meet today is most often in her 30s or 40s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Tiffany deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Tiffany truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Tiffany fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Tiffany travels
Chinese American · A documented choice in Chinese American families.
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