Tiffany: A 3,000-Year-Old Name

Tiffany, is a very neon 80s name, and not without reason,

it exploded in popularity during the decade. But despite Tiffany's modern sound the name

wasn't born in the 80s. Tiffany is at least, 80 decades old.

["OMG that's like, positively medieval." "How is that? And then why is this?"]

Well, let me tell you the tale of tracking Tiffany through time.

It starts in the year 300, with this guy, Eusebius.

A historian and bishop in the Holy Land. He wrote a treatise *On The Divine Manifestation,*

and the word for that in the Greek he wrote was *Theophania*.

In ye olden days religious virtue names were totally a thing

and Theophania became a name given to children born on the feast of The Epiphany.

Though no five syllable name can go unnicked, so for some rhyming sage a Tiffany Epiphany

was inevitable. The name, thus born in the Holy Land,

then spread with the Greek language. The most famous example appears in 972

with the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, who's name is written this way and

probably pronounced *tay-off-ahnu*. Ancient pronunciation is…