Timmy
Masculine · “honoring God”
Timmy is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 25,755 boys against 168 girls since 1880.
Timmy is Timothy at its warmest — the Greek compound for honoring God, cut to one syllable and then given an affectionate ending that most bearers eventually set aside.
How old is the name Timmy?
Timmy first appears in US birth records in 1926 — 99 years ago. The typical Timmy alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 21,500 people named Timmy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Timmy most popular?
Timmy peaked in 1959, reaching #188 nationally. Today it ranks #5861, 5,673 places below that high. See the whole 1959 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Timotheos to Timmy
The story of Timmy
Timothy appears in the New Testament as a companion of Paul, and two letters addressed to him are in the canon, which gave the name a permanent place in Christian naming. English use was thin until the Reformation made Greek and Hebrew New Testament names fashionable. Timothy rose steadily in twentieth-century America, and Timmy was registered as a legal name alongside it, peaking in the mid-1950s.
Meaning
honoring God
Through Timothy, from the Greek Timotheos — timao, 'to honor', and theos, 'god'. Compounds of this shape were ordinary in Greek naming, and this one predates Christianity: the New Testament Timothy carried an existing Greek name.
How the name formed
- Timotheos
- Timothy
- Tim
- Timmy
Related forms: Timo · Timofey · Timothée · Timo
Pronouncing Timmy
TIM-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Timmy and Timmie are said identically.
Nicknames for Timmy
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
- 1926
- Most boys named
- 19591,570 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #188reached in 1959
- Change vs 2023
- −42.3%15 in 2025, from 26
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.
Timmy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Timo in German — related form
- Timofey in Russian — related form
- Timothée in French — related form
- Timo in Finnish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Timmys among us
people named Timmy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was named Timmy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Myron test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Timmy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Myron climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Myron's path sketches the road Timmy is walking now.
Timmy 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
Timmy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Timmy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Timothy stands behind it with two thousand years of documented use.
- Warm and friendly, with Tim available whenever something plainer is wanted.
- Cousins exist across German, Russian, French and Finnish.
- As a diminutive on the certificate it carries an informal register into adult life.
- It is closely associated with the middle of the twentieth century in American use.
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Masculine · #5861 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Timmys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 21,500 people named Timmy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Timmy in 2025?
- Timmy ranks #5861 among US boy names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Timmy?
- About 1 in every 113,872 US boys born in 2025 was named Timmy — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Timmy with classmates?
- Timmy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Timmy
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