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Timur

#2,639 in 2025Boys' name

Iron

Timur has been given to 977 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,639 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Timur, 2025

1 in 66,300

Timur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Timur: meaning, origin, and history

Iron

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Timur means

Timur means “iron”, associated with temür.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Turkish Timur and other languages, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Timur (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Timur is used in English and Turkish.

Timur comes through Turkish Timur and Proto-Turkic *temür.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include demir.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Timur is pronounced /tɪˈmʊəɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 977 boys were recorded with the name Timur between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,213 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,067 in 2020 to #2,639 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,858 in 2015 to #2,639 in 2025.

How common is Timur?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,639
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timur 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timur was born before 2015 — so the typical Timur is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
977
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (419).

Is Timur 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
−8
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+428
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+219
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.0%
Peak was 2017 (61)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,213
2017

Spellings of Timur

Timur is not the most common spelling — Tim is, with 56.9% against Timur's 0.67%.

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 Timur is used

Across 1910–2025, Timur was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 153,839 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 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. Timur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Timur around the world

Where Timur 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
    1996–2025
    #1,276
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2024
    #535
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2012
    #403
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #432
    in 2025
  • France
    1977–2025
    #3,926
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Timur by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,639
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 428
Best rank ever
#2,213
2017
Peak year
2017
61 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
977
Count in 2025
50

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

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Sibling names for Timur

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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