Timo

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Timo is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pet form of obsolete Timotheus, Latin form of Greek Timotheos ‘honour God’.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 120◐
  • EEEstonia1 in 2K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 98K

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

≈51K ●

across 12 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
150 ●

19K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 120 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

TimoLatin · Finnish●248K records
ᲢიმოGeorgian · Georgian●3 records
ตมอรThai · Thai●0 records
ΤίμοGreek · Greek●0 records
티모Hangul · Korean●0 records

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●

Pet form of obsolete Timotheus, Latin form of Greek Timotheos ‘honour God’. See }Timothy in main dictionary.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Timo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#3746,291△12K rec.1 in 12060KTimo133
EE Estonia#2192,105571 rec.—1KTimo41
SE Sweden#9891,982△547 rec.1 in 5.1K2KTimo56
NL Netherlands—1,239858 rec.—8.1KTimo44
US United States—7712.1K rec.1 in 431K771Timo150
FR France—6450 rec.1 in 105K645—1
EG Egypt—426282 rec.——Timo25
CH Switzerland—352292 rec.—87Timo31
GB United Kingdom—270223 rec.——Timo40
PL Poland—214—1 in 179K214——
NO Norway—211△75 rec.1 in 26K656Timo18
DK Denmark—196—1 in 30K196——

Roughly 46K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 120). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish248K52%
  • German140K29%
  • English22K5%
  • Western Frisian17K4%
  • Dutch12K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish247,72352%
German139,75129%
English22,1055%
Western Frisian17,1054%
Dutch11,5582%

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◐

Timo is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name211K records spelled Timo19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, Austria, United States

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Ti-Mo, Timò, Timó, Tímô, Tímo

  • French given name22K records spelled Timo24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, France, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Timó, Tîmo, Tìmo, Tïmô, Timö

  • Russian given name4.0K records spelled Timo26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Poland, Czechia, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Bulgarian

    Also written Тимо, Тімо, Thiemo, Ťimö, Thimo

  • Danish given name2.9K records spelled Timo7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Tímõ

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Timo5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland

    Also written Tim-O, Timö, Timó, Timò

  • Indonesian given name1.1K records spelled Timo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Finland, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Timó

  • Italian given name729 records spelled Timo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Netherlands, Italy

    Also written Timò, Timó, Tïmó

46 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●

Timo 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 German, a diminutive of the male given names Timotheus or Dietmar, popular since the 1980's

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, ) Timmo: männl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Latin, alternative form of tēmō (attested in Epiphanius and Gregory of Tours)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, swindle, con, grift, hustle, sting, con game, confidence game

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, thymus (ductless gland located behind the breastbone)

    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.

Over time●

0501001502001990200020102020151 · 2015

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Timo in Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present), Austria, 1984–2024
Yearrecords
19846
19857
19867
19879
198810
19896
199014
199122
199228
199319
199430
199528
199614
199746
199841
199924
200049
200151
200260
200357
200496
2005111
2006100
2007121
2008124
2009138
2010119
2011139
2012141
2013122
2014118
2015151
2016123
2017108
2018102
2019112
2020111
2021126
2022125
202398
2024104

AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 41 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Timo Salminen, b. 1952Timo Soini, b. 1962Timo Hildebrand, b. 1979Timo Vuorensola, b. 1979Timo Tjahjanto, b. 1980Timo Boll, b. 1981Timo Bernhard, b. 1981Timo Glock, b. 1982Timo Horn, b. 1993Timo Werner, b. 1996

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●

Attested in 78 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Timo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—60K#51
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—46K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8.1K#472
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20243K#74
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2K#1,064
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.5K—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—1K#167
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020771#14,944
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—656#2,119
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024645#2,166
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—491#17,382
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—290—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 449 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Timo?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Timo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Timo have the most bearers?
We estimate about 46 thousand people bear Timo in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled timo.
Where is Timo most common?
Timo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 120 people carrying it.
How common is Timo compared with other names?
In Finland, Timo is the 37th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Timo a male or female name?
Timo 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.
What does the name Timo mean?
Recorded meaning: Pet form of obsolete Timotheus, Latin form of Greek Timotheos ‘honour God’.
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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, “Timo” — the 37th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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