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Tim

Tim is a boy's name meaning "Greek, honoring God", drawing on Greek roots. It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

EtymologyShort for Timothy
GreekGreek – "honoring God"
Births by decade
1900s
191
1910s
454
1920s
607
1930s
1,378
1940s
8,007
1950s
22,259
1960s
41,685
1970s
5,347
1980s
1,131
1990s
657
2000s
775
2010s
460
Peaked in the 1960s · 82,951 total U.S. births since 1900