Tim

girls:

188 births since 1949

#5528 (3rd percentile)

boys:

83.3k births since 1880

#348 (92nd percentile)

overall:

83.5k births since 1880

#772 (90th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tim".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
188
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1949
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#671
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
83,282
Peak Births
6,934
Peak Year
1960
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
91.0%
Current Percentile
3.5%
Peak Rank
#60
Current Rank
#879
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Tim

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tim. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 97.5% confident that Tim is pronounced as tihm. The next most likely pronunciation is tihm, at 2.5% confidence.

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tihm (1 syllable)
Verified
97.5% confidence
T IH1 M
tihm (1 syllable)
2.5% confidence
T IH0 M

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Tim. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Tim, please vote using the thumbs up button.

tam (1 syllable)
2 names 2.1k births
T AE1 M

Names with this pronunciation:

taim (1 syllable)
5 names 738 births
T AY1 M

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like T IH1 M) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.