Timó

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Timó is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Vulgate Latin Timotheus (“Timothy”) and, in eastern Finland, from the corresponding Russian saint's name Тимофе́й (Timoféj), ultimately from Ancient Greek.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 120(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 5.1K
  • NONorway1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

46,291 people

Sources
161 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 120 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Timo in FI Finland, SE Sweden, US United States.

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(measured from records)

Derivation of Timó: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Timó
  1. Vulgate LatinTimotheus“Timothy”(measured from records)
  2. AncientGreek(measured from records)

From Vulgate Latin Timotheus (“Timothy”) and, in eastern Finland, from the corresponding Russian saint's name Тимофе́й (Timoféj), ultimately from Ancient Greek. The standard Finnish equivalent of the English given name Timothy.

Sources 4

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Timó 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.

Where Timó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#13646,2911 in 12060KTimo33
SE Sweden—1,9821 in 5.1K2KTimo7
US United States—7791 in 427K771Timo85
PL Poland—2141 in 179K214——
NO Norway—2111 in 26K656—3
DK Denmark—1961 in 30K196——
SI Slovenia—591 in 36K61——

46,291 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Timó is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Chinese, Arabic

    Also written Timo, ติมอร์, Τιμο, Tímó, ตมอร

  • German given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, United States, Finland

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Timo, Ti-Mo, Tímo, Timò, Tìmó

  • Italian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Italy, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Timo, Timò, Tïmó

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Finland, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Timo

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Timó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Timó mean, and where does it come from?
From Vulgate Latin Timotheus (“Timothy”) and, in eastern Finland, from the corresponding Russian saint's name Тимофе́й (Timoféj), ultimately from Ancient Greek. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Timó a male or female name?
Timó 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 Timó have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Timó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled timo.
Where is Timó most common?
Timó is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 120 people carrying it.
How common is the name Timó?
In Finland, the national register counted 46,291 people named Timó, about 1 in 120 residents.
How common is Timó compared with other names?
In Finland, Timó is the 136th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.

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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, “Timó” — the 136th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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