Tim is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Tim is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Tim. In the SmartGenius ranking, Tim is #2,221 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 78,456 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Tim. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Tim is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Tim. This means that several boys named Tim have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Tim has reached its best rank of #61 multiple times, most recently in 1960. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Tim one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tim was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Tim occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Tim is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Tim is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 78,456 men and boys of all generations bear the name Tim – that is one in 2,128. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Iowa, where one in 400 men and boys is called Tim, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 15,355 men for their name to get Tim as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With only three letters, the name Tim is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tim and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tim, you can simply say:
Tiger
Igloo
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tim
Tim
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
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M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
I
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tim sounds like this:
