Timón

surname · Latin script

Meaning: rudder

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

Timón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 42K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 178K
  • ARArgentina1 in 361K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,189 people

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

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 Timon in BR Brazil.

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)

rudder

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Timón 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 Timón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,1891 in 42K1.2KTimón68
US United States3411 in 975K518—32
AR Argentina1261 in 361K126Timón27
BR Brazil351 in 6M35Timon18
UY Uruguay191 in 178K19—3
PL Poland91 in 4.3M68——

1,189 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling timon. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Timon

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Timon

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Timon

14 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Timón is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, rudder; a movable flat piece at the end of a boat, airplane or ship by which it is steered

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In ch, steer (with a rudder), guide (with a rudder); rudder

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In akl, rudder of a boat; to steer, man the helm

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In dgc, rudder; to steer a canoe with a paddle

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Asturian, helm (steering apparatus of a ship)

    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)

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

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 Timón mean, and where does it come from?
rudder Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Timón?
In the etymology graph, Timar is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Timón have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Timón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled timón.
Where is Timón most common?
Timón is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 42 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Timón?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,189 people named Timón, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.

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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, “Timón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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