Timür

surname · Turkish · Latin script

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

Timür is a surname, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 219K◐
  • KZKazakhstan1 in 28K
  • GEGeorgia1 in 71K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈755 ●

across 5 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
102 ●

76K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 28K ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

TimürLatin · Turkish●1.4K records
ТимурCyrillic · Azerbaijani●425 records
ᲢიმურGeorgian · Georgian●237 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Timur in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, EG Egypt and 2 more, Тимур in KZ Kazakhstan, AZ Azerbaijan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Ტიმურ in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Timür is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye1,40770K rec.——Timür72
KZ Kazakhstan694△262 rec.1 in 28K27KТимур15
GE Georgia354105 rec.—225Ტიმურ22
KG Kyrgyzstan31987 rec.——Тимур5
IN India8017 rec.——Timur5
RU Russia70963 rec.—#54Тимур38
SA Saudi Arabia5310 rec.——Timur4
EG Egypt3219 rec.——Timur15
NL Netherlands26211 rec.1 in 665K262—17
CH Switzerland16122 rec.1 in 525K16—14
PL Poland14—1 in 2.7M2.6K——
AE United Arab Emirates7100 rec.——Timur49

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Languages●

  • Turkish1.4K99%
  • German111%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish1,40599%
German111%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Timür is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 records spelled Timür10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Netherlands, Germany

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Timur, Timuer, Tímùr

  • Russian given name2 records spelled Timür107 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Тимур, Тамерлан, Теймур, Tymur, Тімур

  • Greek given name2 records spelled Timür5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Timour, Τιμουρ, Τιμούρ, Timur

  • a separate name1 records spelled Timür2 spellings in the group

    Also written Timur

  • Thai given name1 records spelled Timür14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Turkmenistan

    Also written ทูเมอร์, Temur, เต็มอร, ทิเมอริ, ทิเมอร์

1 further group 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●

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Timür?
We estimate roughly 755 people bear Timür (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Timür have the most bearers?
Timür is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled timür.
Where is Timür most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Timür is densest in Kazakhstan — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Timür”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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