Timnit is from the Tigrinya/Amharic ትምኒት (Timnit) — wish, hope. PhD Stanford (Fei-Fei Li lab). Time 100 Most Influential People (2022). figure in modern AI ethics scholarship.
Timnit does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Timnit reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.