Timothée
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Timothée is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy.
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 860K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 13K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Timothee in 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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Timothée 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 23K | Timothée | 219 |
| CM Cameroon | #824 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Timothée | 10 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 5 | Timothée | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Timothée | 5 |
| US United States | — | 387 | 1 in 860K | 396 | Timothee | 149 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | — | 3 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 5 | — | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Timothée is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du nom grec Tīmotheos, de tīmē « honneur, respect » et theos « Dieu »; « qui honore Dieu ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du grec Timotheos, « qui honore Dieu »; saint Timothée, disciple de saint Paul, fêté le 26 janvier.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du grec Timotheos, « qui honore Dieu ». Fête: 26 janvier (saint Timothée).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du grec Timotheos, « qui honore Dieu ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Timothy II of Constantinopleb. 1550TRnot in their usual namePatriarch of Constantinople
- Timothée Jordanb. 1865FRFrench cricketer (1865-?)
- Adolphe Beaufrèreb. 1876FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter and engraver (1876-1960)
- Timothée Malendomab. 1935CFPrime Minister of the Central African Republic (1935-2010)
- Timothée de Fombelleb. 1973FRFrench writer
- Timothée Atoubab. 1982CMCameroonian footballer
- Timothée Kolodziejczakb. 1991FRFrench association football player
- Timothée Chalametb. 1995USFrench-American actor (born 1995)
- Hugo Ekitikeb. 2002FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 2002)
- Timothée Pembéléb. 2002FRFrench association football player (born 2002)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
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 does the name Timothée mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Timothée a male or female name?
- Timothée 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 Timothée have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Timothée in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled timothée.
- What are other forms of the name Timothée?
- In the etymology graph, Timothy, Tim and Timmy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Timothée?
- In the United States, the national register counted 387 people named Timothée in 2020, about 1 in 860 thousand residents.
- How common is Timothée compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Timothée is the 824th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/timoth%C3%A9eThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Timothée” — the 824th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.