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Timothy

Timothy means "Honoring God" and comes from Greek, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It has not kept pace since its 1960s peak. In the current registry, it is a name nearly everyone knows. Since 1900, roughly 1,071,538 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.

GreekHonoring God
GreekOne who honors God
Births by decade
1900s
648
1910s
1,920
1920s
2,979
1930s
5,138
1940s
43,611
1950s
198,695
1960s
277,926
1970s
182,440
1980s
173,999
1990s
107,981
2000s
52,511
2010s
23,690
Peaked in the 1960s · 1,071,538 total U.S. births since 1900