Meaning and history
Timothy is the English form of the Greek name Τιμόθεος (Timotheos), meaning “honouring God,” from τιμάω (timao), “to honour,” and θεός (theos), “god.” Saint Timothy, of both Jewish and Greek ancestry, was a companion of Paul on his missionary journeys and the recipient of two New Testament epistles attributed to Paul; tradition says he was martyred at Ephesus after protesting the worship of Artemis. As an English name, Timothy did not come into use until after the Protestant Reformation.
20062006: 4,706 births, rank #93
2007: 4,437 births, rank #99
2008: 4,095 births, rank #107
2009: 3,773 births, rank #109
2010: 3,454 births, rank #114
20112011: 3,233 births, rank #123
2012: 3,123 births, rank #118
2013: 3,068 births, rank #124
2014: 3,012 births, rank #134
2015: 2,802 births, rank #147
20162016: 2,674 births, rank #152
2017: 2,420 births, rank #163
2018: 2,356 births, rank #165
2019: 2,092 births, rank #188
2020: 2,011 births, rank #192
20212021: 1,923 births, rank #198
2022: 1,848 births, rank #202
2023: 1,747 births, rank #211
2024: 1,721 births, rank #206
20252025: 1,734 births, rank #203
Timothy rose from #207 to #203 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1959, with 30,783 births.