Timothey
Timothey was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 591 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Timothey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Timothey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,294, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1959, the peak
Timothey peaked in 1959, when 31 boys were given it, #1,436 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #14,294 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,922 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,203 | 2.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,322 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,147 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,971 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,155 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,060 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,184 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,173 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 11 | #4,783 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,358 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,103 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,715 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,923 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,124 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,468 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,987 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,006 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,247 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,261 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,183 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,197 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,524 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,343 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,879 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,210 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,779 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,753 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,573 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,619 | 12.9 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,576 | 13.0 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,785 | 10.3 |
| 1962 | 29 | #1,475 | 14.0 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,729 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 28 | #1,548 | 13.1 |
| 1959 | 31 | #1,436 | 14.5 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,832 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,013 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,160 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,130 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,107 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,178 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,497 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,681 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,000 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Timothey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Timothey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Timothey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Timothey, and how old are they?
An estimated 482 Americans named Timothey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 47 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 307 people named Timothey (1 woman or girl, 306 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Timothey?
Timothey is a less common spelling of Timothy: SSA has recorded 591 Timothey and 1,088,520 Timothy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,094,618 babies since 1880, Timothey is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,770 babies recorded by SSA was a Timothey (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 Timothey
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 Timothey and names like it
- Compare Timothey and TimothyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTimothey peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Timothey since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Timothey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Timothey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.