girls:
168 births since 1953
#5548 (3rd percentile)
boys:
25.7k births since 1926
#715 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.9k births since 1926
#1574 (80th percentile)
The name Timmy is the #1,574 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,888 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 79.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #715 (84.4% percentile) for all time with 25,720 births since 1926. For girls, it ranks #5,548 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 168 births since 1953.
Timmy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (1926 for boys and 1953 for girls). Birth data for Timmy is available in 94 out of the 98 years between 1926 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 18 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Timmy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Timmy reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 71.7% percentile (ranked #186) with 725 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 726 births per million (ranked 70.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Timmy ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Timmy reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #761) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Timmy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Timmy is pronounced as TIH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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