Muffy

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mary

Muffy has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1978, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Muffy, 1978

1 in 529,000

Muffy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muffy: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Muffy means

Muffy belongs to the name family reached through Muffy → Mary → Marie → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Muffy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary, Marie, Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Muffy is pronounced /ˈmʌfi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Muffy between 1978 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1978; its best national rank was #9,322 in 1978.

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.

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How common is Muffy?

Muffy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978: 1 in 529,000; 6 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only: 1 in 255,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 366,634 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Muffy 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 1978 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 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muffy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muffys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muffy was born before 1978 — so the typical Muffy is around 47 today.

Median birth year: 1978; About 47 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Muffy 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 1978 (6)
Years since peak: 47; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,322; 1978

Spellings of Muffy

Muffy is not the most common spelling — Buffy is, with 79.0% against Muffy's 0.14%.

Buffy79.0%3,306
Taffy20.9%875
Muffy0.14%6

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.

Muffy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,322; 1978
Peak year: 1978; 6 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 1978
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Muffy

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

Daffy Duffy Coffy Tiffy Steffy Shiffy Effy Taffy Buffy

Sibling names for Muffy

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

For a sister

Shanta Cory Imelda Lakesha Cristy Aja Jason Bambi

For a brother

Delvin Cedrick Torrey Jed Kristofer Tory Aric Rodrick

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