Tilmon
Tilmon was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 574 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tilmon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tilmon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tilmon is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tilmon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,325, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1920, the peak
Tilmon peaked in 1920, when 21 boys were given it, #1,740 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #11,325 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,030 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,722 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,779 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,257 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,947 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,374 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,686 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,527 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,378 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #4,575 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,529 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,951 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,349 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,426 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,284 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,343 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,335 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,013 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,326 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,146 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,072 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,134 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,728 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,853 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,545 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,922 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,632 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,797 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,706 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,471 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,662 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,289 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,922 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,942 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,980 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,067 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,921 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,167 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,443 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,377 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,518 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,974 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,863 | 17.0 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,457 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,213 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,781 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,786 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,740 | 19.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,363 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,816 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,931 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,378 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,960 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,627 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,254 | 15.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,524 | 34.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,291 | 41.9 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,110 | 48.9 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,149 | 45.0 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,047 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tilmon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tilmon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tilmon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tilmon, and how old are they?
An estimated 146 Americans named Tilmon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 58 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Tilmon (0 women and girls, 202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,389 babies since 1880, Tilmon is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Tilmon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tilmon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tilmon and names like it
- Compare Tilmon and TillmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sTilmon peaked in 1920.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tilmon since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Tilmon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tilmon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.