Timmy
Last seen for girls in 1976 at #8,156 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1959 · 1,570 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 25,755since 1926
Timmy over time
Rank among boys' names. Timmy has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | — | #5,861 | 15 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,112 | 26 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,335 | 13 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,811 | 27 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,496 | 32 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,889 | 27 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,358 | 33 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,149 | 36 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,705 | 44 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,763 | 42 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,046 | 37 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,914 | 40 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,830 | 79 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,994 | 67 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,635 | 83 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,516 | 88 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,815 | 65 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,372 | 96 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,242 | 107 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,260 | 104 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,303 | 93 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,177 | 105 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,274 | 90 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,037 | 118 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,081 | 109 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,009 | 121 | |
| 1993 | — | #983 | 121 | |
| 1992 | — | #880 | 144 | |
| 1991 | — | #841 | 152 | |
| 1990 | — | #869 | 139 | |
| 1989 | — | #886 | 129 | |
| 1988 | — | #801 | 140 | |
| 1987 | — | #787 | 137 | |
| 1986 | — | #777 | 136 | |
| 1985 | — | #733 | 145 | |
| 1984 | — | #660 | 171 | |
| 1983 | — | #679 | 158 | |
| 1982 | — | #637 | 184 | |
| 1981 | — | #663 | 167 | |
| 1980 | — | #562 | 235 | |
| 1979 | — | #510 | 271 | |
| 1978 | — | #480 | 286 | |
| 1977 | — | #470 | 293 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #466 | 284 |
| 1975 | — | #455 | 308 | |
| 1974 | — | #411 | 361 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #397 | 382 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #362 | 465 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #310 | 619 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #306 | 646 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | #285 | 698 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #229 | 968 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | #227 | 967 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | #216 | 1,038 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #220 | 1,087 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | #211 | 1,301 |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | #208 | 1,379 |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | #205 | 1,437 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | #200 | 1,482 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | #192 | 1,572 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | #188 | 1,570 |
| 1958 | — | #225 | 1,177 | |
| 1957 | — | #310 | 606 | |
| 1956 | — | #366 | 408 | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #440 | 282 |
| 1954 | — | #459 | 250 | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | #535 | 178 |
| 1952 | — | #522 | 179 | |
| 1951 | — | #496 | 187 | |
| 1950 | — | #537 | 160 | |
| 1949 | — | #539 | 153 | |
| 1948 | — | #563 | 140 | |
| 1947 | — | #715 | 92 | |
| 1946 | — | #695 | 87 | |
| 1945 | — | #767 | 64 | |
| 1944 | — | #774 | 65 | |
| 1943 | — | #908 | 54 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,139 | 36 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,169 | 32 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,573 | 19 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,323 | 25 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,337 | 25 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,029 | 13 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,093 | 12 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,452 | 11 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Timmy! It came in at #3,708, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1928, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Timmy is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,239 · 1 in 38,415
Best ever in a state: #61 in West Virginia, 1959.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #2,239 | 6 | 1 in 38,415 |
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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 Timmy
- 971 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,861)
- 2,050 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #5,861)
- 2,712 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #5,861)
- Biggest jump: 231 spots in 1943 (#1,139 → #908)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 1993 (#880 → #983)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1959 at #188 (1,570 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1943–1993
- Highest: 1 in 1,356 boys born in 1960 were named Timmy (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #188 in 1959, was only 1 in 1,360 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.3% of all boys named Timmy (11,929) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 17 | #2,452 (1929) | #3,080 |
| 1930s | 107 | #1,323 (1939) | #2,320 |
| 1940s | 742 | #539 (1949) | #884 |
| 1950s | 4,997 | #188 (1959) | #408 |
| 1960s | 11,929 | #192 (1960) | #219 |
| 1970s | 3,915 | #306 (1970) | #417 |
| 1980s | 1,602 | #562 (1980) | #719 |
| 1990s | 1,192 | #841 (1991) | #1,045 |
| 2000s | 774 | #1,242 (2001) | #1,831 |
| 2010s | 362 | #2,705 (2014) | #3,172 |
| 2020s | 118 | #3,811 (2020) | #5,076 |
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.
Timmy in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 48,640 of them was named Timmy, which outranked 79.3% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,905Wisdom40
- #2,905Xzander40
- #2,905Yitzchak40
- #2,954Timmy39
- #2,954Abbott39
- #2,954Adel39
- #2,954Adem39
- #3,002Abdurrahman38
- #3,002Abubakar38
- #3,002Adon38
Tied with 47 names at #2,954; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.