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Timo

#11,849 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly honours/fears God, through Timoteus

Timo has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #11,849 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Timo, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Timo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly honours/fears God, through Timoteus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Timo means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Timo is used in Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German and Ingrian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Timotheüs, Timothy, Tim and Timoteus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Timo is pronounced /ˈtimo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 274 boys were recorded with the name Timo between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,513 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,446 in 2020 to #11,849 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,469 in 2015 to #11,849 in 2025.

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 Timo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,849
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timo 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timo was born before 2009 — so the typical Timo is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
274
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Choose a decade

2020s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Timo 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
−1,036
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,403
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,380
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2023 (17)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,513
1966

Spellings of Timo

Timo is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 21.0% against Timo's 0.04%.

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 Timo is used

Across 1910–2025, Timo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,340,977 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

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

Timo around the world

Where Timo 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2023
    #2,547
    in 2023
  • France
    1981–2025
    #2,029
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2024
    #435
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2013–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1960–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Timo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,849
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,403
Best rank ever
#3,513
1966
Peak year
2023
17 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
274
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Timo

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

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Sibling names for Timo

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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