Given name & surname
Timi
Timi is a masculine given name. It is used in Finnish, Hungarian, Yoruba, and Māori.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Timi is a diminutive of Timo. In Hungarian usage, Timi is a diminutive of Tímea.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Timi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 654
- 5 boys · 649 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 71 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 10 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 71 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 828 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 59,687 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Timi’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Timi is a diminutive of Timo. In Māori usage, Timi has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jim. In Hungarian usage, Timi is a diminutive of Tímea.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Timi 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.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
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.
People named Timi
- Timi ZajcSlovenian ski jumperborn 2000
- Timi Max ElšnikSlovenian association football playerborn 1998
- Timi HansenDanish musician (1958–2019)
- Timi DakoloNigerian singerborn 1981
- Timi YuroAmerican singer (1940–2004)
- Timi ZhuoTaiwanese singerborn 1981
- Timi Lahtifootball playerborn 1990
- Timi GarstangMarshallese sprinterborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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