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Timara vs Timmie

American parents have registered 3,600 Timmies since 1880, against 633 Timaras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Timara against Timmie, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Timara Timmie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Timmie for 79 years and Timara for 24 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Timara Timmie
Total US births 6333,600
Most in one year 42199
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6202,700
Median age today 2761
Peak year 19971959
Best rank 2,874th girls567th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19691885
Girls / boys 633 / 0350 / 3,250

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Timmies alive today are over 61; half the Timaras are over 27. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Timara and Timmie.