Meaning not yet researched.
Tim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #60 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #60 in 1960; #3,230 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,230 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #60.
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Tim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #60 in 1960 · most boys in one year: 6,931 (1960).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Tim, making it the 3,230th most common boys’ name of the year, down 710 places from #2,520 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 54 boys named Tim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #60, reached in 1960. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,931. For comparison, it was #2,228 in 2015 and #242 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tim in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 83,546 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 41,670 babies named Tim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 469 US boys were named Tim; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Timothy (1,088,520 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Timm, Tiam and Tyme are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Timmy.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Timm (651), Tiam (125), Tyme (124), Time (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,230 |
| 2024 | — | — | 54 | #2,520 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,285 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,607 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,968 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,482 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,389 |
| 2018 | — | — | 57 | #2,353 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,444 |
| 2016 | — | — | 68 | #2,083 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,228 |
| 2014 | — | — | 75 | #1,942 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,456 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,901 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,586 |
| 2010 | — | — | 65 | #2,094 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,032 |
| 2008 | — | — | 70 | #2,026 |
| 2007 | — | — | 77 | #1,873 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,786 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,633 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #2,019 |
| 2003 | — | — | 88 | #1,491 |
| 2002 | — | — | 79 | #1,569 |
| 2001 | — | — | 81 | #1,513 |
| 2000 | — | — | 91 | #1,388 |
| 1999 | — | — | 74 | #1,529 |
| 1998 | — | — | 61 | #1,696 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,728 |
| 1996 | — | — | 61 | #1,613 |
| 1995 | — | — | 51 | #1,753 |
| 1994 | — | — | 69 | #1,418 |
| 1993 | — | — | 64 | #1,470 |
| 1992 | — | — | 78 | #1,288 |
| 1991 | — | — | 68 | #1,381 |
| 1990 | — | — | 77 | #1,268 |
| 1989 | — | — | 96 | #1,071 |
| 1988 | — | — | 92 | #1,031 |
| 1987 | — | — | 83 | #1,052 |
| 1986 | — | — | 75 | #1,086 |
| 1985 | — | — | 101 | #905 |
| 1984 | — | — | 122 | #792 |
| 1983 | — | — | 96 | #904 |
| 1982 | — | — | 139 | #749 |
| 1981 | — | — | 162 | #681 |
| 1980 | — | — | 165 | #677 |
| 1979 | — | — | 148 | #707 |
| 1978 | — | — | 246 | #526 |
| 1977 | — | — | 254 | #521 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,784 | 291 | #460 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,492 | 327 | #436 |
| 1974 | — | — | 410 | #382 |
| 1973 | — | — | 523 | #328 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,551 | 733 | #266 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,966 | 1,049 | #226 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,857 | 1,324 | #199 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,422 | 1,544 | #181 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,606 | 2,073 | #139 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,999 | 2,624 | #116 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,241 | 3,141 | #103 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,532 | 3,718 | #97 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,331 | 4,695 | #82 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,568 | 5,016 | #79 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,511 | 5,585 | #72 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,778 | 6,245 | #65 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,669 | 6,931 | #60 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,602 | 6,826 | #60 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,865 | 5,540 | #74 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,675 | 3,251 | #119 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,717 | #174 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,144 | #212 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,553 | 815 | #244 |
| 1953 | — | — | 744 | #254 |
| 1952 | — | — | 696 | #260 |
| 1951 | — | — | 715 | #250 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,032 | 754 | #242 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,632 | 1,007 | #201 |
| 1948 | — | — | 1,296 | #171 |
| 1947 | — | — | 1,330 | #170 |
| 1946 | — | — | 1,134 | #171 |
| 1945 | — | — | 779 | #192 |
| 1944 | — | — | 605 | #229 |
| 1943 | — | — | 618 | #233 |
| 1942 | — | — | 512 | #264 |
| 1941 | — | — | 388 | #296 |
| 1940 | — | — | 333 | #308 |
| 1939 | — | — | 245 | #362 |
| 1938 | — | — | 270 | #337 |
| 1937 | — | — | 162 | #441 |
| 1936 | — | — | 134 | #490 |
| 1935 | — | — | 131 | #500 |
| 1934 | — | — | 114 | #554 |
| 1933 | — | — | 101 | #576 |
| 1932 | — | — | 87 | #656 |
| 1931 | — | — | 72 | #727 |
| 1930 | — | — | 61 | #839 |
| 1929 | — | — | 74 | #732 |
| 1928 | — | — | 50 | #977 |
| 1927 | — | — | 64 | #847 |
| 1926 | — | — | 65 | #824 |
| 1925 | — | — | 60 | #868 |
| 1924 | — | — | 62 | #884 |
| 1923 | — | — | 65 | #844 |
| 1922 | — | — | 49 | #1,019 |
| 1921 | — | — | 54 | #961 |
| 1920 | — | — | 64 | #851 |
| 1919 | — | — | 57 | #887 |
| 1918 | — | — | 67 | #802 |
| 1917 | — | — | 48 | #931 |
| 1916 | — | — | 56 | #838 |
| 1915 | — | — | 40 | #1,014 |
| 1914 | — | — | 55 | #696 |
| 1913 | — | — | 37 | #788 |
| 1912 | — | — | 36 | #723 |
| 1911 | — | — | 23 | #665 |
| 1910 | — | — | 34 | #478 |
| 1909 | — | — | 30 | #472 |
| 1908 | — | — | 21 | #564 |
| 1907 | — | — | 19 | #586 |
| 1906 | — | — | 15 | #639 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #546 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #642 |
| 1903 | — | — | 25 | #398 |
| 1902 | — | — | 18 | #520 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #852 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #516 |
| 1899 | — | — | 13 | #577 |
| 1898 | — | — | 12 | #659 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #935 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #587 |
| 1895 | — | — | 15 | #554 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #849 |
| 1893 | — | — | 19 | #431 |
| 1892 | — | — | 12 | #636 |
| 1891 | — | — | 15 | #473 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #455 |
| 1889 | — | — | 14 | #521 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #697 |
| 1887 | — | — | 18 | #406 |
| 1886 | — | — | 14 | #508 |
| 1885 | — | — | 16 | #477 |
| 1884 | — | — | 16 | #485 |
| 1883 | — | — | 16 | #457 |
| 1882 | — | — | 11 | #607 |
| 1881 | — | — | 12 | #531 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #563 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).