Tim
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name, a shortened form of Timothy and, very rarely, of Timon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 49th most common given name.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 615(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 657
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 796
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #448 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 622 (measured from records)
- 1 in 479 (inferred from the name graph)
≈970,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Timothy, also used in Ireland as an Anglicized form of Tadhg. Pet form: Timmy (normally used only for young boys).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tim is read(measured from records)
Tim is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English76%
A male given name, a shortened form of Timothy and, very rarely, of Timon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German8.1%
a male given name, popular in the 2000's
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
) Timm: männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tim counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈970,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Tim | 68 |
| US United States | #209 | 143,982 | 1 in 2.3K | 143K | Tim | 622 |
| DE Germany | #132 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 657 | — | Tim | 297 |
| GB United Kingdom | #214 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 357 | Tim | 352 |
| CA Canada | #151 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 910 | 1 | Tim | 295 |
| AU Australia | #122 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 615 | 1 | Tim | 331 |
| BE Belgium | #209 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | 22 | Tim | 155 |
| NZ New Zealand | #119 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 796 | 10 | Tim | 181 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 4,393 | 1 in 479 | 4.5K | — | 62 |
| NL Netherlands | #49 | 18as Time | 1 in 960K | 31K | Tim | 160 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tim is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Short form of Timothy, also used in Ireland as an Anglicized form of Tadhg. Pet form: Timmy (normally used only for young boys).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Tim är en engelsk smekform till → Timothy, som kan härledas till det grekisk-latinska Timotheus ’ära Gud, frukta Gud’. Namnet var mycket populärt decennierna runt millennieskiftet. En känd namnbärare är artisten Tim Bergling (1989–2018), känd som Avicii. I den rikssvenska almanackan 2 november och i den finlandssvenska 9 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Diminutif de Timothee; grec ancien.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tim Holtb. 1919USAmerican actor (1919–1973)
- Tim Allenb. 1953USAmerican actor and comedian
- Tim Berners-Leeb. 1955GBEnglish computer scientist (born 1955)
- Tim Kaineb. 1958USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1958)
- Tim Cookb. 1960USAmerican business executive, Apple CEO
- Tim Walzb. 1964USAmerican politician (born 1964)
- Tim Cahillb. 1979AUAustralian association football player
- Tim Howardb. 1979USAmerican soccer player (born 1979)
- Tim Wieseb. 1981DEGerman footballer
- Joviciib. 1989SEnot in their usual nameSwedish electronic music producer (1989–2018)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 104 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143K | #392 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 31K | #74 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 4.5K | #113 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 4.4K | #61 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 493 | #392 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 124 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 37 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2004 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tim come from?
- Short form of Timothy, also used in Ireland as an Anglicized form of Tadhg. Pet form: Timmy (normally used only for young boys). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Tim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 967 thousand people named Tim in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tim.
- Where is Tim most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tim is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 479 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- Is Tim a male or female name?
- Tim is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Tim?
- In the etymology graph, Timo, Timmy and Timoteo are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Timothy and Timotheus.
- How do you pronounce Tim?
- A machine transcription gives /tɪm/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tim mean?
- In English, A male given name, a shortened form of Timothy and, very rarely, of Timon.
- How common is the name Tim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143,982 people named Tim in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Tim compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Tim is the 49th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/timThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tim” — the 49th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.