Given name
Timotheus
“one who honors God”
Timotheus is a variant of Timothy. One Greek interpretation is “one who honors God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Timotheus is a variant of Timothy. One Greek interpretation is “one who honors God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Timotheus is a variant of Timothy. An origin associated with Timothy is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Timotheus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 188
- 188 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 11 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 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 208 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.
Timotheus’s family of names
In German usage, Timotheus has a diminutive in Tim. In Latin usage, Timotheus has a later derivative in TIMOY. Timotheus has a related form in Timothy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Timotheus has relatives in 55 languages.
36 related names in 55 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.
Across languages 36
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Timoteowar, Tagalog
- Timofeyequivalent
- Tymofiiequivalent
- TymoteuszPolish
- TimotheoSwahili, ia
- TimoteCorsican
- ΤιμόθεοςAncient Greek, Greek
- Timoteuborrowing · Catalan, Asturian
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- Timoyderivative · ceb
- Timotheosequivalent
- TimóteüsWest Frisian
- TimótheoszHungarian
- ТимофійUkrainian
- TimoteusCzech, Swedish
- TimotejSlovene, Slovak
- TimòteuSicilian
- ТимотејSerbian
- Timoteüszea, Dutch
- TimoteuisScottish Gaelic
- ТимофейRussian
- TimoteiRomanian
- TimóteoPortuguese
- TīmotiMāori
- TimotjuMaltese
- TimotheüsLimburgish
- 디모테오Korean
- テモテJapanese
- TímóteusIcelandic
- TiomóidIrish
- KimokeoHawaiian
- TimotheusiGreenlandic
- ტიმოთეGeorgian
- TimothéeFrench
- TimozeozBreton
- ՏիմոթեոսArmenian
- تيموثاوسArabic
People named Timotheus
- MotiDutch DJ and record producerborn 1987
- Timotheus HöttgesGerman manager, CEO Deutsche Telekomborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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