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Tymber vs Tymir

American parents have registered 1,679 Tymirs since 1880, against 624 Tymbers. Tymir is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tymber Tymir

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 38 years in which either name was published, Tymir for 33 years and Tymber for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tymber Tymir
Total US births 6241,679
Most in one year 36177
Babies in 2025 17114
Estimated living today 6201,700
Median age today 119
Peak year 20142024
Best rank 4,269th girls1,172nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,546th1,520th
First recorded 19841991
Girls / boys 583 / 410 / 1,679

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 Tymbers alive today are over 11; half the Tymirs are over 9. That is 2 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: Tymber and Tymir.