Timber vs Timothey

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Timber Timothey

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 75 years in which either name was published, Timber for 45 years and Timothey for 30 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1949–1974 Timothey ahead
• 1975 Timber ahead
• 1976–1978 Timothey ahead
• 1979 Timber ahead
• 1980–1981 Timothey ahead
• 1982–1985 Timber ahead
• 1986 Timothey ahead
• 1987–2025 Timber ahead

Side by side

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 Timotheys alive today are over 59; half the Timbers are over 10. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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