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Timber vs Timmons

American parents have registered 2,397 Timbers since 1880, against 13 Timmonses. Timber is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Timber against Timmons, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Timber Timmons

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 52 years in which either name was published, Timber for 50 years and Timmons for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Timber Timmons
Total US births 2,39713
Most in one year 1327
Babies in 2025 73under 5
Estimated living today 2,4007
Median age today 1072
Peak year 20151953
Best rank 2,236th girls3,143rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,712thunranked
First recorded 19701945
Girls / boys 1,504 / 8930 / 13

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 Timmonses alive today are over 72; half the Timbers are over 10. That is 62 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: Timber and Timmons.