Meaning not yet researched.
Timber: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,258 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,258 in 2015; #3,769 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Timber in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,769 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #2,258.
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Timber: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,258 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 84 (2015).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Timber, making it the 3,769th most common girls’ name of the year, down 261 places from #3,508 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 45 girls named Timber in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,258, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #2,258 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Timber, making it the 3,503rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 235 places from #3,268 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 37 boys named Timber in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,345, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 58. For comparison, it was #2,958 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Timber in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 2,397 US babies have been given the name, 63% of them girls and 37% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 917 babies named Timber.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 615 US girls were named Timber; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tymber and Tember are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tymber (624), Tember (27).
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.
No nicknames listed for Timber in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,769 | 33 | #3,503 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,508 | 37 | #3,268 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,848 | 36 | #3,338 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,820 | 57 | #2,465 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,306 | 52 | #2,551 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,135 | 58 | #2,345 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,372 | 47 | #2,731 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,476 | 41 | #2,937 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,812 | 54 | #2,415 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,590 | 51 | #2,513 |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,258 | 40 | #2,958 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,806 | 47 | #2,617 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,327 | 24 | #4,170 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,480 | 27 | #3,882 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,132 | 29 | #3,690 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,194 | 26 | #3,984 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,695 | 21 | #4,729 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,425 | 12 | #7,145 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,666 | 15 | #5,878 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,111 | 16 | #5,500 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,427 | 18 | #4,804 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,474 | 16 | #5,225 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,561 | 19 | #4,402 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,272 | 18 | #4,478 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,023 | 12 | #5,977 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,518 | 12 | #5,879 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,852 | 19 | #3,970 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,969 | 7 | #8,377 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,999 | 8 | #7,216 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,048 | 10 | #5,942 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,772 | 6 | #8,783 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,435 | 6 | #8,705 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,411 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,647 | 6 | #8,151 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,929 | 6 | #7,824 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,084 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,719 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,713 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,275 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,762 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,428 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,061 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,033 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,954 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,758 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,129 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,244 | — | — |
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).