Meaning and history
Tim is a short form of Timothy or, in Germany, Dietmar. It is also the name of Tiny Tim, the frail son of Bob Cratchit in Charles Dickens’s 1843 novel A Christmas Carol.
20062006: 78 births, rank #1,769
2007: 77 births, rank #1,861
2008: 70 births, rank #2,001
2009: 69 births, rank #2,010
2010: 65 births, rank #2,069
20112011: 48 births, rank #2,547
2012: 41 births, rank #2,869
2013: 51 births, rank #2,424
2014: 75 births, rank #1,920
2015: 61 births, rank #2,212
20162016: 68 births, rank #2,066
2017: 53 births, rank #2,417
2018: 57 births, rank #2,325
2019: 57 births, rank #2,364
2020: 32 births, rank #3,418
20212021: 42 births, rank #2,918
2022: 32 births, rank #3,533
2023: 37 births, rank #3,228
2024: 54 births, rank #2,502
20252025: 37 births, rank #3,181
Tim moved from #792 to #905 for boys between 1984 and 1985. Its highest annual birth count came in 1960, with 6,931 births.