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Timika vs Timmie

American parents have registered 3,600 Timmies since 1880, against 1,005 Timikas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Timika 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 98 years in which either name was published, Timmie for 84 years and Timika for 14 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Timika Timmie
Total US births 1,0053,600
Most in one year 88199
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9602,700
Median age today 4761
Peak year 19761959
Best rank 1,263rd girls567th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671885
Girls / boys 1,005 / 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 Timikas are over 47. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Timika and Timmie.