Timber
#3,768 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Timber has been given to 2,397 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,768 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 84 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.
Babies named Timber, 2025
1 in 82,900
Timber over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Timber over time
In 2025, Timber went to 55% girls and 45% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Timber?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 82,900
- 40 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 40,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,768
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 57,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Timber sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timber. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Timbers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Timber was born before 2014 — so the typical Timber is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,504
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (531).
Is Timber 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
- −260
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −633
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,510
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.48×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 47.6%
- Peak was 2015 (84)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.1% average annual change
Spellings of Timber
Timber is not the most common spelling — Amber is, with 90.3% against Timber's 0.36%.
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 Timber is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Timber was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 21,451 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Where Timber is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Timber was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 82,871 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 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.
Timber around the world
Where Timber 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.
- Canada2015–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Timber by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Timber
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Timber
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.