Timmothy
Masculine · “Greek time and theos”
The letters to Timothy have been questioned for two centuries. Their vocabulary is unlike Paul's, they describe a church with bishops and deacons and rules for widows, and most critical scholars date them a generation after his death, whoever actually wrote them.
How old is the name Timmothy?
Timmothy first appears in US birth records in 1941 — 84 years ago. The typical Timmothy alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 3,600 people named Timmothy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Timmothy most popular?
Timmothy peaked in 1966, reaching #656 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 9,058 places below that high. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Timotheos to Timmothy
The story of Timmothy
First and Second Timothy and Titus are called the Pastoral Epistles because they concern the ordering of congregations rather than doctrine in the abstract, and they have been treated as a group since the eighteenth century. The doubts are cumulative rather than decisive: a vocabulary containing many words Paul never uses elsewhere and much that belongs to second-century Greek moral writing; a church structure with settled offices that seems later than the loose arrangements of the undisputed letters; instructions about widows and elders that presuppose an institution; and difficulties fitting the travel details into the chronology of Acts. Defenders point to the use of a secretary, to a possible late release from prison, and to changing circumstances. The debate has run since Schleiermacher in 1807 and has not closed.
Meaning
Greek time and theos, honoring God
Timmothy is a respelling of Timothy, from Greek Timotheos, joining time, honor, to theos, God, giving one who honors God. The doubled m is an American addition. Timothy appears in Acts and in several letters as a companion of Paul, and two epistles are addressed to him. The peak of this spelling is 1966.
How the name formed
- Timotheos
- Timothy
- Timmothy
Related forms: Timothy · Timotheos · Timoteo
Pronouncing Timmothy
TIM-uh-thee
Three syllables, stress on the first. Timmothy and Timothy are homophones; the doubled m marks the short first vowel that English spelling usually leaves unmarked here.
Nicknames for Timmothy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1941
- Most boys named
- 1966127 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #656reached in 1966
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%7 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Timmothy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Timothy in English — spelling variant
- Timotheos in Greek — same name
- Timoteo in Spanish — same name
Timmothys among us
people named Timmothy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Timmothy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Timmothy
- #9714
- Timmothy on the 2025 chart
- #208
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Timmothy went to 7 boys in 2025, but Timothy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 1,741, which makes it the 208th most-given boys’ name of the year — 9,506 places above the chart.
- Timothy1,734
- Timmothy7
About 1 boy in 981 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 244,011 for Timmothy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cleon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Timmothy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cleon climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cleon's path sketches the road Timmothy is walking now.
Timmothy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Timmothy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Timmothy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tim and Timmy are both established short forms.
- The Greek meaning is clear and documented.
- Three syllables with firm first-syllable stress.
- Timothy is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The doubled m will be treated as an error.
- The 1966 peak places it in the mid-century.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Timmothys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,600 people named Timmothy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Timmothy?
- Timmothy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Timothy is the more common one — 1,734 births in 2025 against 7 for Timmothy.
- How popular is the name Timmothy in 2025?
- Timmothy ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Timmothy?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Timmothy — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Timmothy with classmates?
- Timmothy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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