Timotheus
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Timothy, a companion of Paul. (biblical character)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʲɪməwθiəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Timotheus 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.
- USUnited States1 in 414as Timothy(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 250Kas Timotheos
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.2K
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 Timotheus 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 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
802,946 named Timothy, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Timothy in US United States, GR Greece and Timotheos in SE Sweden, CY Cyprus.
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, a companion of Paul. (biblical character)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Timotheus is read(measured from records)
Timotheus is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
Timothy, a companion of Paul. (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German23%
Timothy (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
männl. Vom. griechischen Ur sprungs (griech. Timotheos, zu timäö »schät zen, ehren« und theos »Gott«, also »Gott ehrend«). Nach dem Neuen Testament war der heilige Timotheus ein Schüler und Mit arbeiter des
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dutch7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Timotheus in Dutch.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Timotheus 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 | — | 2,408 | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Timotheus Kirchnerb. 1533DEGerman theologian
- Timotheus Eberhard von Bockb. 1787SEBaltic German military personnel (1787-1836)
- Timotheus Ledóchowskib. 1792AT(1792-1846)
- Georg Timotheus von Bockb. 1818DEGerman naval officer (1818–1876)
- Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkoferb. 1829DEGerman botanist and university teacher (1829–1927)
- Tim Kleinb. 1870DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer, playwright, theatre critic and teacher (1870–1944)
- Timotheus Grünthalb. 1893EEEstonian jurist and politician (1893-1955)
- Tim de Zeeuwb. 1956NLnot in their usual nameDutch astronomer
- Timotheus Höttgesb. 1962DEGerman manager, CEO Deutsche Telekom
- MOTib. 1987NLnot in their usual nameDutch DJ and record producer
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 34 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.4K | #612 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.6K | #1,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 205 | #37,508 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #13,760 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 27 | #5,282 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #5,061 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #18,281 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Timotheus mean, and where does it come from?
- Timothy, a companion of Paul. (biblical character) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Timotheus?
- In the etymology graph, Timothy, Tim and Timmy are forms of the same name in other languages; Timo is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Timotheus?
- A machine transcription gives /tʲɪməwθiəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Timotheus a male or female name?
- Timotheus 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 Timotheus 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.
- Where is Timotheus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Timotheus is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 7.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Timotheus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,408 people named Timotheus, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Timotheus compared with other names?
- In Greece, Timotheus is the 61st most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/timotheusThe 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, “Timotheus” — the 61st most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.