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Taimur

#8,828 in 2025Boys' name

Iron, through Timur

Taimur has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,828 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Taimur, 2025

1 in 368,000

Taimur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taimur: meaning, origin, and history

Iron, through Timur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taimur means

Taimur belongs to the name family reached through Taimur → Timur. Its meaning is “iron”.

Origin, language, and formation

Taimur is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Timur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 143 boys were recorded with the name Taimur between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,673 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,248 in 2020 to #8,828 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taimur?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,828
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taimur sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taimur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taimurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taimur was born before 2019 — so the typical Taimur is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
143
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2020s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Taimur rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,619
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,580
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 2019 (16)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,673
1988

Spellings of Taimur

Taimur is not the most common spelling — Tamir is, with 40.9% against Taimur's 2.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Taimur is used

Across 1910–2025, Taimur was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 888,256 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Taimur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taimur around the world

Where Taimur ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Taimur by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,828
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,580
Best rank ever
#5,673
1988
Peak year
2019
16 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Taimur

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TaitumTaisonTaigeTaikaTaivenTaijonTaiseiTailorTaimoorTaitenTaichiTaiyoTaidenTaigaTaiwanTaivonTaicynTaiwoTaiteTaidynTaiquanTaishiTainoTaiki

Sibling names for Taimur

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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