Tima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nuba Hills (Sudan) people speaking a Katie language; also Greek: short for Timandra, 'honor'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʲɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 20K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nuba Hills (Sudan) people speaking a Katie language; also Greek: short for Timandra, 'honor'
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tima counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Tima | 2 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Tima | 3 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Tima | 4 |
| MA Morocco | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Tima | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Tima | 5 |
| US United States | 564 | 1 in 590K | 506 | Tima | 23 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 313 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tima is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, 4 (17) janvier, 22 janvier (4 février), 24 janvier (6 février), 21 février (5 / 6 mars), 3 (16) mai, 20 mai (2 juin), 10 (23) juin, 19 août (1 septembre), 19 décembre (1 janvier). Timothée est son équivalent français. Fête : 24 janvier.
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, var of Tem.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In enm, alternative form of tyme (“time”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, a time, hour (period of time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, genitive singular of tim
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tima Džebob. 1963BABosnian Basketball player
- Timo Lewandovskyb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor and author
- Tima Shomalib. 1985JOJordanian producer, director, writer, and comedian
- Tima Turievab. 1992RURussian weightlifter
- Tima Pouyeb. 1999FRFrench basketball player (born 1999)
- Tima Godblessb. 2004NGNigerian athlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 506 | #18,954 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 313 | #1,598 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 58 | #18,954 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2019 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tima?
- A machine transcription gives /tʲɪmə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tima mean, and where does it come from?
- Nuba Hills (Sudan) people speaking a Katie language; also Greek: short for Timandra, 'honor' Recorded by African Names.
- Is Tima a male or female name?
- Tima is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Tima in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tima.
- How common is the name Tima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 564 people named Tima in 2020, about 1 in 590 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/timaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.