Timothy
Timothy is ranked 208th among boys in 2024 (1,708 births). Its best rank was 11th, in 1960, 1966–1967.
- Rank in 2024
- #208up 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,7080.10% of boys
- Peak year
- 195930,784 births
- Best rank
- #11first in 1960
- Since 1880
- 1,086,730people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,082,404 boys have been named Timothy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 30,784 births — 1.4% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 134 → 208).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1960s alone account for 26%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 65 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,326 girls have also been given it, 0.40% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Timothy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 693 | |
| 1890s | 651 | |
| 1900s | 647 | |
| 1910s | 1,918 | |
| 1920s | 2,960 | |
| 1930s | 5,106 | |
| 1940s | 43,503 | |
| 1950s | 198,322 | |
| 1960s | 276,819 | |
| 1970s | 181,268 | |
| 1980s | 172,834 | |
| 1990s | 107,767 | |
| 2000s | 52,465 | |
| 2010s | 28,226 | |
| 2020s | 9,225 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Timothy was the 12th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Timothy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timmothypeak 1960
- Jeffreypeak 1962
- Jeffriepeak 1961
- Brienpeak 1963
- Brittpeak 1960
- Terencepeak 1964
- Renardpeak 1970
- Michaelpeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.