Meaning not yet researched.
Timmy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #188 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #188 in 1959; #6,107 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Timmy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,107 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #188.
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Timmy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #188 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 1,572 (1960).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Timmy, making it the 6,107th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,065 places from #5,042 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 20 boys named Timmy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #188, reached in 1959. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,572, in 1960. For comparison, it was #3,220 in 2015 and #541 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Timmy in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 6 babies. In all, 25,923 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 12,041 babies named Timmy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 242 US boys were named Timmy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Timothy (1,088,520 babies since 1880), Timmie (3,600 babies since 1880) and Timia (1,164 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Timi, Timya and Timiya are summarised on this page.
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: Timi (654), Timya (383), Timiya (183), Timea (156), Timmi (124), Timmia (89), Timmey (83), Timmya (67), Temmy (18), Timmyah (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.
No nicknames listed for Timmy in the open dataset we use.
Timmy is listed as a nickname for Tim, Timothy.
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 | — | — | 15 | #6,107 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,042 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,206 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,610 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,642 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,905 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,561 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,516 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,973 |
| 2016 | — | — | 33 | #3,433 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,220 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,748 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,802 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,999 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,105 |
| 2010 | — | — | 40 | #2,956 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,939 |
| 2008 | — | — | 44 | #2,784 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,846 |
| 2006 | — | — | 67 | #2,009 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,647 |
| 2004 | — | — | 88 | #1,529 |
| 2003 | — | — | 65 | #1,841 |
| 2002 | — | — | 96 | #1,382 |
| 2001 | — | — | 107 | #1,253 |
| 2000 | — | — | 104 | #1,266 |
| 1999 | — | — | 93 | #1,310 |
| 1998 | — | — | 105 | #1,185 |
| 1997 | — | — | 90 | #1,283 |
| 1996 | — | — | 118 | #1,041 |
| 1995 | — | — | 109 | #1,087 |
| 1994 | — | — | 121 | #1,012 |
| 1993 | — | — | 121 | #988 |
| 1992 | — | — | 144 | #882 |
| 1991 | — | — | 152 | #843 |
| 1990 | — | — | 139 | #875 |
| 1989 | — | — | 129 | #889 |
| 1988 | — | — | 140 | #803 |
| 1987 | — | — | 137 | #792 |
| 1986 | — | — | 136 | #779 |
| 1985 | — | — | 145 | #735 |
| 1984 | — | — | 171 | #662 |
| 1983 | — | — | 158 | #680 |
| 1982 | — | — | 184 | #637 |
| 1981 | — | — | 167 | #671 |
| 1980 | — | — | 235 | #563 |
| 1979 | — | — | 271 | #511 |
| 1978 | — | — | 286 | #480 |
| 1977 | — | — | 293 | #472 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,184 | 284 | #466 |
| 1975 | — | — | 308 | #456 |
| 1974 | — | — | 361 | #412 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,693 | 382 | #398 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,514 | 465 | #362 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,583 | 619 | #310 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,789 | 646 | #306 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,948 | 698 | #285 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,470 | 968 | #229 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,419 | 967 | #227 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,464 | 1,038 | #216 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,185 | 1,087 | #220 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,433 | 1,301 | #211 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,785 | 1,379 | #208 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,286 | 1,437 | #205 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,857 | 1,482 | #200 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,904 | 1,572 | #192 |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,000 | 1,570 | #188 |
| 1958 | — | — | 1,177 | #226 |
| 1957 | — | — | 606 | #310 |
| 1956 | — | — | 408 | #366 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,647 | 282 | #441 |
| 1954 | — | — | 250 | #459 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,986 | 178 | #536 |
| 1952 | — | — | 179 | #522 |
| 1951 | — | — | 187 | #496 |
| 1950 | — | — | 160 | #541 |
| 1949 | — | — | 153 | #540 |
| 1948 | — | — | 140 | #568 |
| 1947 | — | — | 92 | #718 |
| 1946 | — | — | 87 | #699 |
| 1945 | — | — | 64 | #774 |
| 1944 | — | — | 65 | #780 |
| 1943 | — | — | 54 | #916 |
| 1942 | — | — | 36 | #1,163 |
| 1941 | — | — | 32 | #1,186 |
| 1940 | — | — | 19 | #1,622 |
| 1939 | — | — | 25 | #1,355 |
| 1938 | — | — | 25 | #1,359 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,321 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,442 |
| 1935 | — | — | 13 | #2,121 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,647 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,201 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,495 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,578 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,149 |
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).