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Epiphany

#13,726 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Epiphany has been given to 791 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #13,726 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Epiphany, 2025

1 in 553,000

Epiphany over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Epiphany: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Epiphany means

Epiphany is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Epiphany is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Epiphany is pronounced /ɪˈpɪfəni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 791 girls were recorded with the name Epiphany between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1988; its best national rank was #2,097 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,558 in 2020 to #13,726 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,072 in 2015 to #13,726 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Epiphany?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,726
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Epiphany sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Epiphany. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Epiphanys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Epiphany was born before 2001 — so the typical Epiphany is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
791
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Choose a decade

1990s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Epiphany 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
−2,314
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,168
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,654
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.9%
Peak was 1988 (55)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,097
1988

Where Epiphany is used

Across 1910–2025, Epiphany was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,061,559 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Epiphany has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Epiphany around the world

Where Epiphany 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Epiphany by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,726
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,168
Best rank ever
#2,097
1988
Peak year
1988
55 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
791
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Epiphany

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

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Sibling names for Epiphany

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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