Boy
Timmy
As a boy's name, Timmy is understood to mean "honoring God". 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. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
EtymologyDiminutive of Timothy
EtymologyMeaning "honoring God"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
17
1930s
107
1940s
742
1950s
5,016
1960s
12,034
1970s
3,950
1980s
1,602
1990s
1,192
2000s
774
2010s
298
Peaked in the 1960s · 25,732 total U.S. births since 1900