Buffey
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Buffey has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1972, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Buffey, 1979
1 in 554,000
Buffey over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Buffey?
Buffey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1979
- 1 in 554,000
- 6 of 3,326,731 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1979
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 384,320 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Buffey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 384,320 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Buffey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Buffeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Buffey was born before 1973 — so the typical Buffey is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 78.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 96
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 78.1% of all recorded uses (75).
Is Buffey 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (15)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.5% average annual change
Spellings of Buffey
Buffey is not the most common spelling — Buffy is, with 77.4% against Buffey's 2.2%.
Buffey around the world
Where Buffey ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Buffey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Buffey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Buffey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.