Timotheos
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʲɪməwθioʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Timotheos is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the 61st most common given name.
- GRGreece≈1 in 250K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 414as Timothy
- GYGuyana1 in 1.3Kas Timothy
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Timotheos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
802,946 named Timothy, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Timotheus in NL Netherlands, PL Poland, GY Guyana and 1 more and Timothy in US United States, GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Timotheos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 802,946as Timothy | 1 in 414 | 802K | Timothy | 109 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,408as Timotheus | 1 in 7.2K | 3.5K | Timotheus | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,821as Timothy | 1 in 5.6K | 1.8K | Timotheos | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 743as Timothy | 1 in 52K | 743 | Timotheus | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Timotheus | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 566as Timothy | 1 in 1.3K | 566 | Timotheus | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 221as Τιμοθεος | 1 in 5.7K | 221 | Timotheos | 15 |
| GR Greece | #61 | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 250K | 5 | Timothy | 38 |
802,946 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
Timotheos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, accusative plural of Timotheus
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)
- Timothyb. 17TR1st century Christian evangelist, philosopher and bishop
- Pope Timothy I of Alexandriab. 350EGPope of the Coptic Church
- Timotheosb. 400GRGreek sculptor of the 4th century BC
- Timotheusb. 411GRnot in their usual nameGreek statesman and general (410–353 B.C.)
- Timotheus of Miletusb. 450TRnot in their usual nameGreek harpist and poet (c. 446 – 357 BC)
- Pope Timothy III of Alexandriab. 450EGPatriarch of Alexandria
- Timothy II of Alexandriab. 500EGPope of the Coptic church
- Timothy III of Alexandriab. 500EGGreek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
- Timothy Ib. 727IQPatriarch of the Church of the East
- Tim Freyb. 1972CHnot in their usual nameSwiss politician, political consultant and lobbyist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,720 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 14 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What are other forms of the name Timotheos?
- In the etymology graph, Timothy, Timoteo and Timothée are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Timotheos?
- A machine transcription gives /tʲɪməwθioʊz/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Timotheos a male or female name?
- Timotheos is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Timotheos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 803 thousand people named Timothy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Timotheos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 802,946 people named Timothy in 2020, about 1 in 414 residents.
- How common is Timotheos compared with other names?
- In Greece, Timotheos is the 61st most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Timotheos?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/timotheosThe 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, “Timotheos” — the 61st most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.