Timur
Timur reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 2,186, and has been recorded 977 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,604th. About 960 Timurs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Timur
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 977
- Estimated living today
- 960
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 2,186th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,604th
- First recorded
- 1969
How old the living Timurs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 977 babies given the name since 1969, about 960 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 740 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Turkish Timur and other languages, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Timurs
- Timur (1336–1405)the founder of the Timurid Empire
- Timur Bekmambetov (born 1961)Russian film director
- Timur Safin (born 1992)Russian fencer
- Timur Shah Durrani (1746–1793)Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793)
- Timur Vermes (born 1967)German author
- Timur Kapadze (born 1981)Uzbekistani association football manager and player
- Timur Miroshnychenko (born 1986)Ukrainian television presenter
- Timur Zhamaletdinov (born 1997)Russian association football player
People named Timur with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Timur is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Timur is most concentrated in Florida (8.9×), New York (4.7×), California (2.0×), Illinois (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Timur peaked:
Timur elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Timur | 595 birth registrations | 125th |
| England and Wales boys | Timur | 528 | 856th |
| France boys | Timur | 285 | 1,379th |
| Belgium boys | Timur | 186 | 575th |
| Switzerland boys | Timur | 167 | 533rd |
| Ireland boys | Timur | 90 | 362nd |
| Scotland boys | Timur | 9 | 535th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Timur | 3 | 403rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Timur: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Timur | 129 | 0.010% | 480th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Timur | 38 | 0.009% | 426th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Timur is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 56 of them.
Timur: rank by region
In 2025, Timur was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Timur | 536 | 10 |
In 2025, Timur was given 2 times or more in 11 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Timur | 116 | 11 |
| Lubuskie | Timur | 138 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Timur | 128 | 5 |
| Małopolskie | Timur | 127 | 10 |
| Mazowieckie | Timur | 164 | 10 |
| Opolskie | Timur | 126 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Timur | 139 | 6 |
| Śląskie | Timur | 132 | 9 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Timur | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Timur | 123 | 12 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Timur | 101 | 7 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Timur appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (181st) and Province of East Flanders (259th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Timur by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 81 | 192nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Timur among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Timur | 144 | 160 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Timur lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 560 men called Timur were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Timur | 98 | 0.097 | 800 |
| Valencia/València | Timur | 86 | 0.064 | 980 |
| Girona | Timur | 26 | 0.062 | 1,044 |
| Málaga | Timur | 47 | 0.054 | 1,032 |
| Tarragona | Timur | 22 | 0.050 | 1,231 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Timur | 22 | 0.041 | 1,876 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Timur against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.