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I know an excellent Timothy who always goes by Tim; in the past I've also known a pretty dire one. There was a silly pop song long ago about a boy named Timothy which put the whole of South Africa off the name (quite literally in the case of a woman I knew who'd been planning on naming her son Timothy but couldn't face it in the end and opted for Richard instead).

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Timothy, Gregory, Anthony, Jeremy. They have been said to sound girly, presumably because of Dorothy, Cecily, Emily ... of the four, I prefer Gregory, then Timothy, then Anthony pretty far behind and Jeremy nowhere. Timothy's OK; no better.