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Timm

Boys' name

Variant of Tim

Timm has been given to 651 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1959, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Timm, 1982

1 in 702,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Timm: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Timm means

Timm is a variant of Tim.

Origin, language, and formation

Timm is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 651 boys were recorded with the name Timm between 1941 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,225 in 1959.

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 Timm?

Timm had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 702,000
5 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
486,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timm 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 1982 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 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timm. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timm was born before 1959 — so the typical Timm is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
550
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (247).

Is Timm 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (41)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,225
1959

Spellings of Timm

Timm is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 27.8% against Timm's 0.05%.

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 Timm is used

Across 1910–2025, Timm was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 290,315 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 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. Timm has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Timm around the world

Where Timm 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.

  • France
    2006–2006
    #4,861
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Timm 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
#1,225
1959
Peak year
1959
41 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
651
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Timm

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

TimoTimonTimurTimberTimofeyTimoteoTimirTimotheeGrimmTimithyTimotyTimathyTimotheyTimmieTimohtyKimmTimmyTimothTimariTimonthyTimmeyTimmothyTimtohyTim

Sibling names for Timm

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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