Given name

Timea

“heart, happy soul”

Timea is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Hungarian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Timea goes back to Ancient Greek ευθυμία, meaning “heart, happy soul.”

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Where it comes from

Timea comes from Ancient Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Ancient Greek ευθυμία.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Timea through the years

Babies since 1880
156
0 boys · 156 girls
Most popular year
2015
12 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246820002025Highest share 20150.0
Timea in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1996–2025, per million girls 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 girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 562 as a first name in 2020.

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

Timea’s family of names

Timea may belong to the same name family as TIMMEA. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Timea’s family in the name graph

TimeaTimiTimeahTymeaTímeaTiméaTimmea

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 5

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

People named Timea

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

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Sibling ideas

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