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.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
- —
- Too few births to compare
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.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
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
- Timea BacsinszkySwiss female tennis playerborn 1989
- Timaea, Queen of Spartawife of Agis II of Sparta450 BC
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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