Timber

#3,712 for girls in 2025, 40 births · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to girls 62.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2015 · 84 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,504
since 1970

Timber over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201999peak #2,236, 2015peak #2,323, 2020girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,71240#3,45033
2024#3,45945#3,21637
2023#2,82360#3,29336
2022#2,79261#2,43857
2021#2,28680#2,52352
2020#3,09151#2,32358
2019#2,35576#2,69447
2018#2,45772#2,89341
2017#2,77961#2,38854
2016#2,56069#2,47751
2015#2,23684#2,91940
2014#2,78162#2,58247
2013#4,24334#4,06424
2012#4,38733#3,80727
2011#5,93522#3,60529
2010#6,90418#3,89426
2009#5,53725#4,58221
2008#5,27927#6,76312
2007#4,56732#5,66115
2006#5,90622#5,30316
2005#5,26624#4,63118
2004#6,21619#5,00716
2003#6,29918#4,27619
2002#4,17930#4,32218
2001#3,94032#5,66712
2000#3,45338#5,58812
1999#2,81248#3,83419
1998#2,92944#7,5607
1997#4,81921#6,6188
1996#5,77116#5,53510
1995#3,67029#7,7926
1994#5,24918#7,7706
1993#5,20618
1992#4,23624
1991#5,39917#7,2716
1990#4,23023
1989#6,53112#6,9416
1988#6,66611
1987#7,9878
1986#7,1349
1985#7,5638
1984#6,29110
1983#3,80620
1982#9,2376
1981#10,4115
1980#10,3925
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Timber! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 253 spots since 2024 (#3,459#3,712)
  • 621 spots since 2020 (#3,091#3,712)
  • 1,476 spots since 2015 (#2,236#3,712)
Rise & fade · girls
45 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2015 at #2,236 (84 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 20,511
  • Highest: 1 in 20,511 girls born in 2021 were named Timber (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 40,182 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,236 in 2015, was only 1 in 21,251 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 35.3% of all girls named Timber (531) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
  • Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s17#7,995 (1970)#8,277
1980s94#3,806 (1983)#7,602
1990s258#2,812 (1999)#4,432
2000s267#3,453 (2000)#5,064
2010s531#2,236 (2015)#3,664
2020s337#2,286 (2021)#3,027

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Timber in 1999

girls
#2,812
48 births · 1 in 36,955 girls
boys
#3,834
19 births · 1 in 101,061 boys

Top girls' names in 1999

  1. #1Emily26,542
  2. #2Hannah21,679
  3. #3Alexis19,237
  4. #4Sarah19,119
  5. #5Samantha19,044
  6. #6Ashley18,136
  7. #7Madison18,054
  8. #8Taylor16,906
  9. #9Jessica16,350
  10. #10Elizabeth15,350
  11. #2,812Timber48

Top boys' names in 1999

  1. #1Jacob35,371
  2. #2Michael33,915
  3. #3Matthew30,418
  4. #4Joshua27,265
  5. #5Nicholas25,639
  6. #6Christopher25,604
  7. #7Andrew23,866
  8. #8Joseph23,220
  9. #9Daniel22,704
  10. #10Tyler22,669
  11. #3,834Timber19
More about 1999

girls

1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 36,955 of them was named Timber, which outranked 83.4% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Timber
  1. #2,782Sailor49
  2. #2,782Shakyra49
  3. #2,782Xochilt49
  4. #2,812Timber48
  5. #2,812Adison48
  6. #2,812Aleyah48
  7. #2,812Allisa48
  8. #2,854Aine47
  9. #2,854Alaura47
  10. #2,854Alexyss47

Tied with 41 names at #2,812; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. 1,407Citlalli#2,338#931
  2. 1,329Noelia#2,048#719
  3. 1,060Amaya#1,458#398
  4. 864Kyara#1,789#925
  5. 604Journey#1,557#953
Fallers
  1. 579Erykah#779#1,358
  2. 417Tea#747#1,164
  3. 415Tasia#800#1,215
  4. 406Monika#930#1,336
  5. 357Chase#952#1,309

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 101,061 of them was named Timber, which outranked 67.0% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Timber
  1. #3,704Zakkary20
  2. #3,704Zayd20
  3. #3,704Zhane20
  4. #3,834Timber19
  5. #3,834Abdelrahman19
  6. #3,834Abdias19
  7. #3,834Abrahm19
  8. #3,986Aaric18
  9. #3,986Aaryn18
  10. #3,986Abdulla18

Tied with 151 names at #3,834; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. 1,239Trajan#2,235#996
  2. 669Tyreese#1,558#889
  3. 595Latrell#1,231#636
  4. 420Zion#694#274
  5. 414Xander#1,338#924
Fallers
  1. 381Jaret#555#936
  2. 362Kordell#841#1,203
  3. 313Juwan#524#837
  4. 296Jarett#743#1,039
  5. 288Christion#989#1,277

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1999