Tiffy

Girls' name

Diminutive of Tiffany

Tiffy has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1981, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Tiffy, 1981

1 in 494,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tiffy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Tiffany

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tiffy means

Tiffy is a diminutive of Tiffany.

Origin, language, and formation

Tiffy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tiffany.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Tiffy between 1974 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1981; its best national rank was #9,033 in 1981.

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 Tiffy?

Tiffy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981: 1 in 494,000; 7 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only: 1 in 238,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 342,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tiffy 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 1981 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 342,528 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tiffy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tiffys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tiffy was born before 1980 — so the typical Tiffy is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 24; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Tiffy 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 1981 (7)
Years since peak: 44; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,033; 1981

Spellings of Tiffy

Tiffy is not the most common spelling — Tiffany is, with 95.9% against Tiffy's <0.01%.

Tiffany95.9%338,864
Buffy0.94%3,306
Tilly0.76%2,699
Tiffiny0.68%2,388
Tiny0.59%2,087
Tiffney0.32%1,138
Tifany0.27%960
Taffy0.25%875

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.

Tiffy 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: #9,033; 1981
Peak year: 1981; 7 that year
First recorded: 1974
Last recorded: 1981
All-time count: 24
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tiffy

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

Tiffni Tifney Tifiny Tifni Duffy Coffy Tiffin Shiffy Tifanee Tiferet Tiffny Tifa Tifini Tifinie Tifanni Daffy Tiffay Tiffnay Tifeoluwa Muffy Tiffinay Steffy Tiffonie Tiffoni

Sibling names for Tiffy

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

Shamika Kandi Fawn Joi Jessi Jenelle Charissa Latrice

For a brother

Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Jamaal Wilfredo Antwan Donnell

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