Timmie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Timmie has been given to 3,600 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 189 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.

Babies named Timmie, 2021

1 in 424,000

Timmie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2021, Timmie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18852021

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.

Timmie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Timmie means

Timmie is a given name.

The naming story behind Timmie

Wikidata records Timmie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q105597720, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,250 boys were recorded with the name Timmie between 1910 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 189 in 1959; its best national rank was #567 in 1959.

In the United States, 350 girls were recorded with the name Timmie between 1885 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,188 in 1885.

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.

How common is Timmie?

Timmie 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 424,000
8 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,719 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timmie 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timmie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timmies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timmie was born before 1963 — so the typical Timmie is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,856
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (1,166).

Is Timmie 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 1959 (189)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#567
1959

Spellings of Timmie

Timmie is not the most common spelling — Jimmie is, with 55.3% against Timmie's 1.6%.

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 Timmie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Timmie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 103,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 20,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 50,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

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

Where Timmie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Timmie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Timmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Timmie

People whose public names include Timmie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Timmie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Timmie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Timmie 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
#567
1959
Peak year
1959
189 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,250
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,188
1885
Peak year
1961
19 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
350
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Timmie

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

Names with a curve like Timmie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Timmie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Sibling names for Timmie

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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