Timi
Timi was last recorded in 1997, when 10 babies were given it; 654 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Timi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Timi mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Timi is “a male given name”
A diminutive of Timo with formal given name status since the 1970s.
/ˈtimi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Timi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,977, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1964, the peak
Timi peaked in 1964, when 71 girls were given it, #1,342 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 10 | #8,977 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,394 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,497 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,481 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,517 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,430 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,014 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,257 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,638 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,308 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #10,811 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,360 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,318 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,946 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,426 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,374 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,758 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,998 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,656 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,194 | 8.5 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,211 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,836 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,879 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,106 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,563 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,308 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,998 | 22.6 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,919 | 23.0 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,667 | 27.2 |
| 1965 | 67 | #1,348 | 38.0 |
| 1964 | 71 | #1,342 | 37.5 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,543 | 28.0 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,668 | 23.9 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,177 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,599 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,047 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,909 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,439 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Timi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Timi has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Timi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Timi, and how old are they?
An estimated 591 Americans named Timi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 49 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 828 people named Timi (649 women and girls, 179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,095 babies since 1880, Timi is the second most given (21% of them).
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 Timi
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 Timi and names like it
- Compare Timi and TimiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTimi peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Timi since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Timi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Timi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Timi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.