Timmy
Timmy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 188th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19601,572 births
- Best rank
- #188in 1959
- Since 1926
- 25,738people given the name
The story in the numbers
25,738 boys have been named Timmy in the United States since 1926, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 1,572 births.
The name has all but left use: 19 births in 2024, against 1,572 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 46%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Timmy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 17 | |
| 1930s | 107 | |
| 1940s | 742 | |
| 1950s | 4,997 | |
| 1960s | 11,928 | |
| 1970s | 3,915 | |
| 1980s | 1,602 | |
| 1990s | 1,192 | |
| 2000s | 774 | |
| 2010s | 362 | |
| 2020s | 102 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Timmy was the 192nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Timmy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Todpeak 1962
- Martypeak 1962
- Robpeak 1963
- Gregpeak 1961
- Jefforypeak 1967
- Darrylpeak 1961
- Timmiepeak 1959
- Chrispeak 1961
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.