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Timber vs Timofey

American parents have registered 2,397 Timbers since 1880, against 513 Timofeys. Timber is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Timber Timofey

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

Timber has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Timber had 39 and Timofey had 26.

Side by side

  Timber Timofey
Total US births 2,397513
Most in one year 13231
Babies in 2025 7319
Estimated living today 2,400510
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20152015
Best rank 2,236th girls3,513th boys
Rank in 2025 3,712th5,045th
First recorded 19701994
Girls / boys 1,504 / 8930 / 513

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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