Taimur
Origin
Urdu
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
iron (Turkic temur); the name of the conqueror Timur, ancestor of the Mughal emperors, so it carries dynastic weight in South Asia that it lacks elsewhere
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Taimur has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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