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Biff

Boys' name

Punch, hit, strike

Biff has been given to 254 babies in the U.S. since 1944. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1956, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Biff, 1980

1 in 492,000

Biff over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Biff: meaning, origin, and history

Punch, hit, strike

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Biff means

Biff means “punch, hit, strike”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Biff is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɪf/ for Biff.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 254 boys were recorded with the name Biff between 1944 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1956; its best national rank was #1,536 in 1956.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Biff?

Biff had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 492,000
7 of 3,444,198 births
Among boys only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
341,049 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Biff sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 341,049 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Biff. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Biffs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Biff was born before 1959 — so the typical Biff is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Biff rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (26)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,536
1956

Spellings of Biff

Biff is not the most common spelling — Bill is, with 55.1% against Biff's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Biff is used

Across 1910–2025, Biff was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,600,445 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Biff has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Biff by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,536
1956
Peak year
1956
26 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
254
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Biff

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Biff

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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