Tymber
Feminine · “building wood”
Tymber is given to both — 583 girls and 41 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Timber and domestic are the same word at the root. The Indo-European stem meant to build or a dwelling, and it gave Latin domus, a house, Greek domos, and English timber, which originally meant the building itself rather than the wood it was made from.
How old is the name Tymber?
Tymber first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Tymber is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Tymber are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tymber most popular?
Tymber peaked in 2014, reaching #4269 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 2,277 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
From timbor to Tymber
The story of Tymber
English narrowed timber from the building to the material, which is a common enough shift; the older sense survives in the verb and in the phrase timbered house. The word entered American naming in the 1980s and 1990s with a group of nature words that also produced Willow, River, Meadow and Aspen, and the y respelling followed almost immediately, marking the word as a name rather than a noun. Tymber is used for both sexes in small numbers and more often for girls, and its best year in United States records is 2014. The Timber spelling appears alongside it.
Meaning
building wood, or that which is built
Old English timbor meant a building or the act of building before it meant wood for building, and the verb to timber meant to construct. It descends from a root also behind Latin domus, a house, and the word domestic. The y in this spelling is a modern American substitution for the i and carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- timbor
- timber
- Tymber
Related forms: Timber · Zimmer · Domus
Pronouncing Tymber
TIM-ber
Two syllables with the stress on the first. The y is a short i and changes nothing; Timber and Tymber are identical aloud.
Nicknames for Tymber
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
- 1984
- Most girls named
- 201434 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4269reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −10.5%17 in 2025, from 19
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.
Tymber in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Timber in English — spelling variant
- Zimmer in German — related form
- Domus in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Tymbers among us
people named Tymber are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Tymber
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tymber
- #6546
- Tymber on the 2025 chart
- #903
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tymber went to 17 girls in 2025, but Timber is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 57, which makes it the 903rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,643 places above the chart.
- Timber40
- Tymber17
About 1 girl in 28,198 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Tymber 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 Griselle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tymber's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Griselle climbed just as high around 1963, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Griselle's path sketches the road Tymber is walking now.
Tymber 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
Tymber beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tymber in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A real English word with an unusually good etymology behind it.
- The y marks it clearly as a name rather than a noun.
- Fits the current taste for nature words exactly.
- It is an ordinary English noun and an exclamation shouted by loggers.
- Timber is the standard spelling of the word.
- It is used for both sexes, which the spelling does nothing to settle.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tymbers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Tymber are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tymber?
- Tymber is one of 2 recorded spellings. Timber is the more common one — 40 births in 2025 against 17 for Tymber.
- How popular is the name Tymber in 2025?
- Tymber ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tymber?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Tymber — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tymber with classmates?
- Tymber will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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