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Timmie vs Timonthy

American parents have registered 3,600 Timmies since 1880, against 850 Timonthys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Timmie Timonthy

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 97 years and Timonthy for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Timmie Timonthy
Total US births 3,600850
Most in one year 19942
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,700740
Median age today 6152
Peak year 19591965
Best rank 567th boys1,163rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18851953
Girls / boys 350 / 3,2500 / 850

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 Timonthys are over 52. That is 9 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: Timmie and Timonthy.