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
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 84 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,504since 1970
Timber over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,712 | 40 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,459 | 45 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 | #2,438 | 57 |
| 2021 | #2,286 | 80 | #2,523 | 52 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | #2,323 | 58 |
| 2019 | #2,355 | 76 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 | #2,388 | 54 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 | #2,477 | 51 |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 | #2,582 | 47 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #2,812 | 48 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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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.
See more about Timber
- 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)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2015 at #2,236 (84 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 35.3% of all girls named Timber (531) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #7,995 (1970) | #8,277 |
| 1980s | 94 | #3,806 (1983) | #7,602 |
| 1990s | 258 | #2,812 (1999) | #4,432 |
| 2000s | 267 | #3,453 (2000) | #5,064 |
| 2010s | 531 | #2,236 (2015) | #3,664 |
| 2020s | 337 | #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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 26,887 of them was named Timber, which outranked 84.3% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,756Zaniah62
- #2,756Zaylah62
- #2,756Zoha62
- #2,792Timber61
- #2,792Aja61
- #2,792Amaiah61
- #2,792Amity61
- #2,821Aaira60
- #2,821Adalyne60
- #2,821Alize60
Tied with 28 names at #2,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 30,632 of them was named Timber, which outranked 83.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,408Reyes58
- #2,408Taim58
- #2,408Waylan58
- #2,438Timber57
- #2,438Arion57
- #2,438Arius57
- #2,438Artem57
- #2,468Aadvik56
- #2,468Abubakr56
- #2,468Ahsan56
Tied with 29 names at #2,438; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.