Given name
Timaeus
“the perfect man”
Timaeus has an alternative spelling in Timeus. One Greek interpretation is “the perfect man.”
Original GreekΤιμαιος
Meaning & origin
What it means
Timaeus has an alternative spelling in Timeus. One Greek interpretation is “the perfect man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Timaeus has an alternative spelling in Timeus. An origin associated with Timeus is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Tīmaeus, from Ancient Greek Τῑ́μαιος, from Ancient Greek τῑμάω (“honour”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Timaeus appears in Mark 10:46, Mark 10:52.
- Mark 10:46
- Mark 10:52
From biblical name research
Timaeus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2012.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Timaeus’s family of names
In English usage, Timaeus has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form TIMEO. In English usage, Timaeus has a conventional equivalent in the Romanian form Timeu. Timaeus has an alternative spelling in Timeus.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Timaeus has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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