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Timi

Girls' name

Possibly honours/fears God, through Timo

Timi has been given to 654 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1964, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Timi, 1997

1 in 362,000

Timi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Timi: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly honours/fears God, through Timo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Timi means

Timi belongs to the name family reached through Timi → Timo → Timoteus. Its meaning is “honours/fears God”.

Origin, language, and formation

Timi is used in Finnish, Hungarian, Māori and Yoruba.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Timo, Tímea, Jim and Timoteus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Timi is pronounced /ˈtimi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 649 girls were recorded with the name Timi between 1953 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,342 in 1964.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Timi between 1961 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1961; its best national rank was #4,606 in 1961.

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 Timi?

Timi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 362,000
10 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 174,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
251,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 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 251,245 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timi was born before 1966 — so the typical Timi is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
60.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
649
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 60.9% of all recorded uses (395).

Is Timi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (71)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,342
1964

Spellings of Timi

Timi is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 31.0% against Timi's 0.07%.

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 Timi is used

Across 1910–2025, Timi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 301,161 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —

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

Timi around the world

Where Timi 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.

  • South Australia
    1972–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Timi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,342
1964
Peak year
1964
71 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
649
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,606
1961
Peak year
1961
5 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Timi

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

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Sibling names for Timi

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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