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Timmothy

#10,566 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Timmothy has been given to 4,108 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #10,566 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 134 recorded.

Babies named Timmothy, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Timmothy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Timmothy means

Timmothy is a given name.

The naming story behind Timmothy

Wikidata records Timmothy as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q62750331, 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, 4,108 boys were recorded with the name Timmothy between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 134 in 1960; its best national rank was #659 in 1966.

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 Timmothy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,566
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timmothy 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timmothy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timmothys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timmothy was born before 1973 — so the typical Timmothy is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,028
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (1,097).

Is Timmothy 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
+3,477
Places climbed
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
5.2%
Peak was 1960 (134)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#659
1966

Spellings of Timmothy

Timmothy is not the most common spelling — Timothy is, with 99.4% against Timmothy's 0.38%.

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 Timmothy is used

Across 1910–2025, Timmothy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 91,785 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 100,000

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

Timmothy around the world

Where Timmothy 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.

  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,611
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1960–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Timmothy in other languages

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

Timothy

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

Timmothy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#659
1966
Peak year
1960
134 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,108
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Timmothy

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

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Names with a curve like Timmothy

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

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Sibling names for Timmothy

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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