Temur

Boys' name

Form of Timur

Temur has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Temur, 2021

1 in 678,000

Temur over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Temur: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Timur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Temur means

Temur is a form of Timur.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Temur is used in Georgian and Uzbek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Temur → Timur. The family’s meaning is “iron”, recorded in English with the source elements temür.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Timur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Temur between 2009 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #8,726 in 2016.

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.

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How common is Temur?

Temur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Temur 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Temur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Temurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Temur was born before 2016 — so the typical Temur is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 79.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 79.2% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Temur 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2016 (9)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,726; 2016

Spellings of Temur

Temur is not the most common spelling — Emir is, with 30.2% against Temur's 0.39%.

Emir30.2%5,615
Tamir12.9%2,401
Lemar10.2%1,895
Tymir9.0%1,679
Demir7.3%1,364
Demar7.1%1,323
Timur5.3%977
Remus5.1%956

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 Temur is used

Across 1910–2025, Temur was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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. Temur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Temur by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,726; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 9 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Temur

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

Temidayo Temesgen Taimur Temujin Temar Temir Temitayo Timur Teman Temon Temani Temitope Flamur Temple Temuge Temiloluwa Temeka Temari Temarion Taymur Temarcus Wilmur Temuulen Templeton

Sibling names for Temur

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

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Ayesha Henley Annalee Raylee

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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