Timofeev

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Timofeev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Timothy (Gk Timotheos, from timan to honour + theos God), which was bestowed in honour of various early saints, notably the companion of St Paul and first bishop of Ephesus. Cogns.

rarermore common
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 2.4Kas Тимофеев
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 15Kas Тимофєєв

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 Timofeev 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.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈60,000 named Тимофеев, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
172 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

Kyrgyzstan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TimofeevLatin(measured from records)
ТимофеевCyrillic(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Тимофеев in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, BY Belarus and 3 more and Тимофєєв in UA Ukraine.

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)

Timothy (Gk Timotheos, from timan to honour + theos God), which was bestowed in honour of various early saints, notably the companion of St Paul and first bishop of Ephesus. Cogns. (patrs.): Beloruss.: Tsimafeev. Croatian: Timotijevic. Cogns. (not patrs.): Pol.: Tyma, Tymanski, Tymowski (all from the Pol. given name Tymoteusz). Cat.: Timoteu. Dims.: Ukr.: Timoshchuk, Timoshenko, Timchenko. Hung.: Timko. Patrs. (from dims.): Russ.: Timoshkov, Timosh(k)in, Timochin, Timonin, Tim(k)in, Timshin, Timakov, Timachyov, Tim(y)ashaev, Timu(sh)ev, Timeshov. Pol.: Tymkiewicz. 'Son of the wife of T. (dim.)’: Ukr.: Timchishin.

Sources 2

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Timofeev 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 Timofeev is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#165≈60,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Тимофеев172
CN China—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 387K—Тимофеев3
UA Ukraine—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 15K—Тимофєєв36
UZ Uzbekistan—≈450 est.≈1 in 68K—Тимофеев7
BY Belarus#689≈450 est.≈1 in 21K—Тимофеев21
KG Kyrgyzstan—≈160 est.≈1 in 36K—Тимофеев12
FI Finland—1041 in 54K104Тимофеев6

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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Timofeev is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Timoféev

  • Bulgarian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian

    Also written Тимофеев

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Russia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Timofejev

30 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Leonid Timofeyev, b. 1904Lev Timofeev, b. 1936Oleg Timofeyev, b. 1963Sergey Timofeev, b. 1965Alexander Timofeev, b. 1971Oxana Timofeeva, b. 1978Artyom Timofeev, b. 1985Anna Timofeeva, b. 1987Alexey Timofeev, b. 1991Artyom Timofeyev, b. 1994

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 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Timofeev
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—104#12,439
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—29—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Timofeev mean?
Recorded meaning: Timothy (Gk Timotheos, from timan to honour + theos God), which was bestowed in honour of various early saints, notably the companion of St Paul and first bishop of Ephesus. Cogns.
In which country does Timofeev have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Тимофеев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Timofeev?
In Finland, the national register counted 104 people named Timofeev, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
How common is Timofeev compared with other names?
In Russia, Timofeev is the 165th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames 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, “Timofeev” — the 165th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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