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How popular is “Tim” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tim” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tim” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Tim” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tim” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tim” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Tim” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tim” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 11 0.000049654 11 -100%
1883 16 0.000073751 16 -100%
1884 16 0.000065719 16 -100%
1885 16 0.00006643 16 -100%
1886 14 0.000054834 14 -100%
1887 18 0.000072759 18 -100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 -100%
1889 14 0.000048452 14 -100%
1890 17 0.000056403 17 -100%
1891 15 0.000052324 15 -100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 -100%
1893 19 0.000058421 19 -100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 -100%
1896 14 0.000039163 14 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 12 0.000031458 12 -100%
1899 13 0.000038322 13 -100%
1900 22 0.000048861 22 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 -100%
1903 25 0.000065582 25 -100%
1904 14 0.000034698 14 -100%
1905 19 0.00004482 19 -100%
1906 15 0.00003501 15 -100%
1907 19 0.000040826 19 -100%
1908 21 0.000042976 21 -100%
1909 30 0.000058683 30 -100%
1910 34 0.000057558 34 -100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 -100%
1912 36 0.000036435 36 -100%
1913 37 0.000032539 37 -100%
1914 55 0.000038832 55 -100%
1915 40 0.000021829 40 -100%
1916 56 0.000028949 56 -100%
1917 48 0.000023919 48 -100%
1918 67 0.00003086 67 -100%
1919 57 0.000027011 57 -100%
1920 64 0.000028286 64 -100%
1921 54 0.000023131 54 -100%
1922 49 0.000021405 49 -100%
1923 65 0.00002823 65 -100%
1924 62 0.000026033 62 -100%
1925 60 0.000025715 60 -100%
1926 65 0.000028311 65 -100%
1927 64 0.000027594 64 -100%
1928 50 0.000022115 50 -100%
1929 74 0.000033757 74 -100%
1930 61 0.000027437 61 -100%
1931 72 0.000034214 72 -100%
1932 87 0.000041207 87 -100%
1933 101 0.000050514 101 -100%
1934 114 0.000054892 114 -100%
1935 131 0.000062682 131 -100%
1936 134 0.000064498 134 -100%
1937 162 0.000076032 162 -100%
1938 270 0.00012203 270 -100%
1939 245 0.00011119 245 -100%
1940 333 0.000144614 333 -100%
1941 388 0.00015925 388 -100%
1942 512 0.000187421 512 -100%
1943 618 0.00021895 618 -100%
1944 605 0.0002249 605 -100%
1945 779 0.00029364 779 -100%
1946 1134 0.000354895 1134 -100%
1947 1330 0.000369206 1330 -100%
1948 1296 0.000375378 1296 -100%
1949 1014 0.00029098 7 1007 -99%
1950 759 0.000216649 5 754 -99%
1951 715 0.000194096 715 -100%
1952 696 0.000183254 696 -100%
1953 744 0.000193064 744 -100%
1954 820 0.000205994 5 815 -99%
1955 1143 0.000284677 1143 -100%
1956 1718 0.000416683 1718 -100%
1957 3263 0.000776509 12 3251 -99%
1958 5544 0.001341105 8 5536 -100%
1959 6841 0.001645265 13 6828 -100%
1960 6944 0.001671716 13 6931 -100%
1961 6262 0.00151172 13 6249 -100%
1962 5596 0.001386737 10 5586 -100%
1963 5022 0.001268759 5 5017 -100%
1964 4707 0.001210771 11 4696 -100%
1965 3732 0.00102939 14 3718 -99%
1966 3149 0.000906016 8 3141 -99%
1967 2631 0.000774987 7 2624 -99%
1968 2081 0.00061597 8 2073 -99%
1969 1554 0.000447153 9 1545 -99%
1970 1339 0.000371273 16 1323 -98%
1971 1058 0.000308243 9 1049 -98%
1972 738 0.000234808 5 733 -99%
1973 523 0.000173358 523 -100%
1974 410 0.000134868 410 -100%
1975 332 0.000109956 5 327 -97%
1976 296 0.000097551 5 291 -97%
1977 254 0.000079962 254 -100%
1978 246 0.000077508 246 -100%
1979 148 0.000044485 148 -100%
1980 165 0.000047902 165 -100%
1981 162 0.000046829 162 -100%
1982 139 0.000039624 139 -100%
1983 97 0.000028008 97 -100%
1984 122 0.000034969 122 -100%
1985 101 0.000028298 101 -100%
1986 75 0.000021085 75 -100%
1987 83 0.00002302 83 -100%
1988 92 0.000024898 92 -100%
1989 96 0.000024971 96 -100%
1990 77 0.000019481 77 -100%
1991 68 0.000017457 68 -100%
1992 78 0.000020306 78 -100%
1993 64 0.000016975 64 -100%
1994 69 0.00001856 69 -100%
1995 51 0.000013926 51 -100%
1996 61 0.000016725 61 -100%
1997 57 0.000015721 57 -100%
1998 61 0.000016584 61 -100%
1999 74 0.000020033 74 -100%
2000 91 0.000024075 91 -100%
2001 81 0.000021638 81 -100%
2002 79 0.000021133 79 -100%
2003 88 0.000023144 88 -100%
2004 60 0.000015703 60 -100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 -100%
2006 78 0.000019716 78 -100%
2007 77 0.000019261 77 -100%
2008 70 0.000017809 70 -100%
2009 69 0.000018062 69 -100%
2010 65 0.000017588 65 -100%
2011 48 0.000013123 48 -100%
2012 41 0.00001121 41 -100%
2013 51 0.000013989 51 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 75 -100%
2015 61 0.000016482 61 -100%
2016 68 0.000018535 68 -100%
2017 53 0.00001482 53 -100%
2018 57 0.000016212 57 -100%
2019 57 0.000016422 57 -100%
2020 32 0.000009579 32 -100%
2021 42 0.000012397 42 -100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 -100%
2023 37 0.000011174 37 -100%
2024 54 0.000016224 54 -100%

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