Timothy
The 2025 national count puts Timothy at #203, keeping its place without fuss. Its high-water mark came in 1959, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Timothy carries
Timothy · Latin
“fear God”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Timothy’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Timothy, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Timothy since 1880
Timothy peaked in 1959 at #12; #203 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Timothy is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Timothy runs strongest in Mississippi at 0.3% in 2025, then Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Timothy
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Valerie
#127 in 2025 · Latin
Alan
#191 in 2025 · Latin
Patrick
#235 in 2025 · Latin
Diana
#244 in 2025 · Latin
Mark
#245 in 2025 · Latin
Vincent
#107 in 2025 · Latin
Celeste
#188 in 2025 · Latin
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with T · Latin names · all names
About Timothy
How popular is the name Timothy?
The 2025 national count puts Timothy at #203, keeping its place without fuss. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Timothy mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “fear God”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Timothy?
The recipe puts Valerie first, then Patrick, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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