Girls' name · since 1995

Timberlyn

Timberlyn has 187 recorded births since 1995 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2017 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

#20,528 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#12,412 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
187
born since 1995
2010s
peak decade

Timberlyn currently ranks #12412 among girls' names in America, with 187 babies recorded since 1995.

Timberlyn has 187 recorded births among girls since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12412 as of the latest data, more common than 28% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2025.

  • #20,528 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #12,412 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 187 born since 1995
  • 2010s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Timberlyn ranks #20,528 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,412 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 187 born since 1995, peaking in the 2010s.

#20,528 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#12,412 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
187
born since 1995
2010s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%28.2%
Timberlyn vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Timberlyn's 187 recorded births place it above 71.61% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Timberlyn compares

187 35th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Timberlyn's all-time total is 50% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Timberlyn Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 187 376 567,345
Peak-year births 14 21 19,840

Timberlyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Timberlyn's full recorded timeline at 2013, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1998, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2017 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Timberlyn popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2017)
14
Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
46810121416 19952002200620112016202020242025 7

Timberlyn by decade

2010s is the heaviest window (70 births, 37% of the file).

2010s was Timberlyn's strongest decade.

70 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.

Timberlyn births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2010s at 70 births (37% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Timberlyn?
187 babies have been named Timberlyn since 1995. All-time, it sits at #20,528 of 72,339 girls' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #12,412 of 17,297 among girls. The peak year was 2017 with 14 births.
Where does Timberlyn sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Timberlyn ranks #20,528 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,412 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Timberlyn most popular?
Timberlyn was most popular in the 2010s decade with 70 total births. The single peak year was 2017.
How long has the name Timberlyn been used?
The SSA has tracked Timberlyn since 1995 -- 31 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Timberlyn?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Timothy, Timber, Timia, Timberly, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

What to do with Timberlyn's data

  • Timberlyn's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (70 total births) through the 2020s (51) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.

Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Timberlyn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1995–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Timberlyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.