girls:
4.3k births since 1921
#2606 (54th percentile)
boys:
1.1M births since 1880
#27 (99th percentile)
overall:
1.1M births since 1880
#37 (100th percentile)
The name Timothy is the #37 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,084,961 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #27 (99.4% percentile) for all time with 1,080,635 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,606 (54.4% percentile) for all time with 4,326 births since 1921.
Timothy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls).
The name Timothy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Timothy reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 98.5% percentile (ranked #11) with 14,076 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 16,065 births per million (ranked 98.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1980, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Timothy ranks #208 for boys (77.3% percentile) with 946 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Timothy reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #637) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 81 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Timothy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Timothy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Timothy is pronounced as TIH-muh-thee, which has 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T IH1 M AH0 TH IY0) 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.
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