Timmy
Timmy was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,104 among boys’ names; 25,923 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,900 Americans named Timmy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 52 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Timmy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Timmy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Timmy is “a diminutive of the male given name Timothy.”
/ˈtɪmi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Timmy?
#6,104 among boys’ names, 2025
Timmy fell from #3,219 in 2015 to #6,104 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 8.8 per million.
1,584 babies in 1960, the peak
Timmy peaked in 1960, when 1,584 babies were given it (1,572 boys, #192 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,104 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,038 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,202 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,606 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,637 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,902 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,558 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,512 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,432 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,219 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,746 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,800 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,104 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,955 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,938 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 79 | #1,846 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,008 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 83 | #1,645 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 88 | #1,527 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,838 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,379 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,249 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,263 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,307 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,182 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,280 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 118 | #1,039 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,084 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 121 | #985 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 144 | #879 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 152 | #839 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 139 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 129 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 140 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 137 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 136 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 145 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 171 | #662 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 158 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 184 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 167 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 235 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 271 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 286 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1977 | 293 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 284 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 308 | #456 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 361 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1973 | 382 | #398 | 0.25 |
| 1972 | 465 | #362 | 0.29 |
| 1971 | 619 | #310 | 0.35 |
| 1970 | 646 | #306 | 0.35 |
| 1969 | 698 | #285 | 0.39 |
| 1968 | 968 | #229 | 0.56 |
| 1967 | 967 | #227 | 0.55 |
| 1966 | 1,038 | #216 | 0.58 |
| 1965 | 1,087 | #220 | 0.58 |
| 1964 | 1,301 | #211 | 0.65 |
| 1963 | 1,379 | #208 | 0.68 |
| 1962 | 1,437 | #205 | 0.69 |
| 1961 | 1,482 | #200 | 0.70 |
| 1960 | 1,572 | #192 | 0.74 |
| 1959 | 1,570 | #188 | 0.74 |
| 1958 | 1,177 | #226 | 0.55 |
| 1957 | 606 | #310 | 0.28 |
| 1956 | 408 | #365 | 0.19 |
| 1955 | 282 | #440 | 0.14 |
| 1954 | 250 | #458 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 178 | #535 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 179 | #521 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 187 | #495 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 160 | #540 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 153 | #539 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 140 | #567 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 92 | #717 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 87 | #699 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 64 | #774 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 65 | #780 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 54 | #916 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,355 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,359 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,441 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,200 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,147 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Timmy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Timmy has been given almost only to boys: 168 girls in 96 years of records.
Girls and boys named Timmy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Timmy, and how old are they?
20,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 25,923 Americans ever recorded as Timmy. The median Timmy alive today is 60 years old; half are between 52 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 14,931 people named Timmy (183 women and girls, 14,748 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 122 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,360 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 361 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Timmy born?
The states with the most babies named Timmy are North Carolina, Texas and Kentucky, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 1,678 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 1,611 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 1,550 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| California | 1,496 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 1,477 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Georgia | 1,060 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 991 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 854 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 852 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 825 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Timmy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Timmy is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1926 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Timmy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 29,880 babies since 1880, Timmy is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 21 babies (71%), again the most given.
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 Timmy
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 Timmy and names like it
- Compare Timmy and TimmieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTimmy peaked in 1960.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Timmy since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Timmy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Timmy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.