Tiffany ranks #534 with 233 entries, registered female. The name peaked as a baby name in the 1980s alongside the cultural ubiquity of Tiffany & Co. and the 1961 Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's. As a pet name it is one of the cleanest examples of the human-name pet wave operating on a 1980s-baby-name cohort.
The 1980s human-name register
Tiffany clusters with Brittany, Heather, Stephanie, and Jessica in the 1980s-female-baby-name pet-naming cohort. Owners reaching for these names are doing it deliberately for the deadpan effect — a Pomeranian named Tiffany reads very differently than a Pomeranian named Bella.
Breed lean and sound fit
Three syllables (TIF-uh-nee), front-stressed, with an open trailing -ee that carries across a yard. Tiffany shows up disproportionately on small, well-groomed breeds — Maltese, Yorkshire Terriers, Poodles, and pampered cats. The luxury-brand association leaks into the breed pattern.
The Holly Golightly counter-reading
A smaller cohort of owners reach Tiffany specifically through the Audrey Hepburn film, picking the name for its old-Hollywood elegance rather than the 1980s-baby-name register. The reading is generationally distinct and skews toward older owners. The Tiffany baby name page shows the SSA chart peaking sharply in the mid-1980s and declining since.
Owners reaching for Tiffany are almost always at least slightly older than the name's baby-name peak — Tiffanys naming pets, rather than parents giving the name to babies. The generational layer is unusually clean.