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Tymofiy

Boys' name

To honour + god, through Тимофій

Tymofiy has been given to 8 babies in the U.S. since 2024. 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 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tymofiy, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tymofiy: meaning, origin, and history

To honour + god, through Тимофій

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tymofiy means

Tymofiy belongs to the name family reached through Tymofiy → Тимофій → Τιμόθεος. Its meaning is “to honour + god”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ukrainian Тимофій (Tymofij), in turn from Ancient Greek Τιμόθεος (Timótheos). Doublet of Timothy.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Tymofiy is used in English.

Tymofiy comes through Ukrainian Тимофій and Ancient Greek Τιμόθεος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Тимофій, Timothy and Τιμόθεος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Tymofiy between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,795 in 2024.

How common is Tymofiy?

Tymofiy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tymofiy 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tymofiy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tymofiys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tymofiy was born before 2024 — so the typical Tymofiy is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8
People you could plausibly meet
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Tymofiy 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 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,795
2024

Spellings of Tymofiy

Tymofiy is not the most common spelling — Timofey is, with 98.5% against Tymofiy's 1.5%.

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.

Tymofiy around the world

Where Tymofiy 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
    2024–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tymofiy 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
#9,795
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tymofiy

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

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Sibling names for Tymofiy

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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