Timathy
Timathy was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 285 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Timathy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Timathy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,014, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1989, the peak
Timathy peaked in 1989, when 13 boys were given it, #4,246 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #14,014 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,395 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,212 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,764 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,366 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,144 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,026 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,621 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,527 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,400 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #10,182 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,688 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,547 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,680 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,455 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,767 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,246 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,391 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,035 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,102 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,459 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,247 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,237 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,983 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,078 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,986 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,278 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,155 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,810 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,684 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,868 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,964 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,721 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,611 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,768 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,262 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,603 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,632 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,855 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,522 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Timathy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Timathy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Timathy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Timathy, and how old are they?
An estimated 259 Americans named Timathy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 269 people named Timathy (1 woman or girl, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,094,244 babies since 1880, Timathy is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,741 babies recorded by SSA was a Timathy (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 Timathy
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 Timathy and names like it
- Compare Timathy and TimothyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTimathy peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Timathy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Timathy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.