Timmothy
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 127 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,108since 1941
Timmothy over time
Rank among boys' names. Timmothy has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #3,421 | 32 |
| 2007 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #2,618 | 36 |
| 2000 | #2,621 | 35 |
| 1999 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #1,933 | 46 |
| 1995 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #1,512 | 61 |
| 1992 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #1,547 | 54 |
| 1989 | #1,382 | 63 |
| 1988 | #1,329 | 60 |
| 1987 | #1,188 | 66 |
| 1986 | #945 | 94 |
| 1985 | #1,103 | 71 |
| 1984 | #1,166 | 61 |
| 1983 | #1,130 | 63 |
| 1982 | #1,107 | 68 |
| 1981 | #1,143 | 64 |
| 1980 | #1,089 | 69 |
| 1979 | #960 | 85 |
| 1978 | #901 | 91 |
| 1977 | #928 | 84 |
| 1976 | #1,084 | 60 |
| 1975 | #945 | 75 |
| 1974 | #903 | 80 |
| 1973 | #962 | 70 |
| 1972 | #929 | 74 |
| 1971 | #838 | 94 |
| 1970 | #826 | 95 |
| 1969 | #770 | 102 |
| 1968 | #734 | 103 |
| 1967 | #716 | 107 |
| 1966 | #656 | 127 |
| 1965 | #753 | 96 |
| 1964 | #751 | 104 |
| 1963 | #785 | 94 |
| 1962 | #706 | 119 |
| 1961 | #730 | 111 |
| 1960 | #676 | 134 |
| 1959 | #788 | 95 |
| 1958 | #744 | 98 |
| 1957 | #880 | 74 |
| 1956 | #906 | 68 |
| 1955 | #957 | 61 |
| 1954 | #996 | 56 |
| 1953 | #1,123 | 43 |
| 1952 | #1,227 | 36 |
| 1951 | #1,407 | 28 |
| 1950 | #1,538 | 23 |
| 1949 | #1,544 | 23 |
| 1948 | #1,943 | 15 |
| 1947 | #2,076 | 14 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,574 | 8 |
| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #2,523 | 9 |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Timmothy! It came in at #3,133, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1944, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Timmothy is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#771 · 1 in 13,069
Best ever in a state: #304 in Oregon, 1969.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #771 | 6 | 1 in 13,069 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Timmothy
- 2,635 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 158 spots in 1986 (#1,103 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 243 spots in 1987 (#945 → #1,188)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1966 at #656 (127 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1954–1975
- Highest: 1 in 14,043 boys born in 1966 were named Timmothy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.7% of all boys named Timmothy (1,097) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 80 | #1,544 (1949) | #2,460 |
| 1950s | 582 | #744 (1958) | #1,057 |
| 1960s | 1,097 | #656 (1966) | #728 |
| 1970s | 808 | #826 (1970) | #928 |
| 1980s | 679 | #945 (1986) | #1,158 |
| 1990s | 475 | #1,502 (1991) | #1,897 |
| 2000s | 275 | #2,618 (2001) | #3,642 |
| 2010s | 80 | #6,036 (2010) | #7,823 |
| 2020s | 32 | #9,714 (2025) | #10,490 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Timmothy in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 26,150 of them was named Timmothy, which outranked 83.3% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,067Octavius61
- #1,067Ramsey61
- #1,067Rashawn61
- #1,084Timmothy60
- #1,084Andrae60
- #1,084Cristobal60
- #1,084Jarad60
- #1,100Bo59
- #1,100Britt59
- #1,100Darell59
Tied with 15 names at #1,084; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.