Given name & surname

Temir

“iron”

Temir is a masculine given name. It is used in Turkish.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Temir is a romanization of Темір. Темір goes back to a word meaning “iron.”

Explained through its name family

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Temir through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2018
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01232025Highest share 20210.0
Temir in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2018–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Temir’s family of names

In Kazakh usage, Temir is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Темір. In Greek usage, Temir as a surname is a transliteration of Τεμίρ.

Walk Temir’s family in the name graph

TemirТемірΤεμίρTimurTemur

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Temir

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Temir, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Tymoni

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Thamer

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>99% boys

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Taves

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Joshir

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Rekker

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Temir’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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