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When I think of "Tim," I think of my dad. Even though I've met plenty of other Timothys / Tims throughout my life, I will always connect the name to him specifically. I doubt I'd use it in the future (particularly as a first name), but I don't think it's a bad name at all.

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Timothy isn't as "enduringly" classic as Thomas, which was one of the twenty (or so) names English people were apparently allowed to use during the Renaissance. Timothy's popularity is far spikier, peaking in the U.S. in... hah, 1967, when my dad was born! My dad was in the younger half of his twenties when I was born, so Tim is on its way to becoming a "dad name" like Bill, Bob, Gary, Jim, or Ted. Not quite there yet, though, give it at least another ten years.

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