Timoteo

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Timoteo is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek. See }Timothy in main dictionary.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 390◐
  • USUnited States1 in 415
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 430

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

≈850K ●

across 5 countries

#239 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
570 ●

9.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 415 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

TimothyLatin · English●8.7M records
טימוטיHebrew · Hebrew●318 records
ΤιμοθεοςGreek · Greek●293 records
디모데Hangul · Korean●33 records
ጢሞቴዎስEthiopic · Amharic●11 records
ทีโมธThai · Thai●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Timothy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 20 more and Timotheus in PL Poland.

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●

From Greek. See }Timothy in main dictionary.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Timoteo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#52802,2197.6M rec.1 in 415802KTimothy570
GB United Kingdom#73481,176395K rec.—7Timothy268
AU Australia#66296,829184K rec.—117Timothy272
CA Canada#80147,876139K rec.—29Timothy217
AR Argentina#73455,79142K rec.—276Timoteo51
PE Peru#58448,21361K rec.——Timoteo47
IT Italy#19846,19247K rec.—18Timothy99
NG Nigeria#15642,80454K rec.——Timothy123
PL Poland—40,741△43 rec.1 in 94041KTimotheus8
PH Philippines#55539,80933K rec.——Timothy129
MX Mexico#67436,44236K rec.—118Timoteo80
DE Germany#52730,17129K rec.—1Timothy162

Roughly 802K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 415). 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●

  • Spanish147K59%
  • Portuguese66K27%
  • English17K7%
  • Italian1.8K1%
  • 1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish147,07759%
Portuguese66,39127%
English16,7887%
Italian1,7951%
1,2811%

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◐

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

  • English given name25K records spelled Timoteo13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Venezuela

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Timóteo, Timòteo, Timötëö, Timotéo

  • Catalan given name3.8K records spelled Timoteo5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Peru

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Timotéo, Timóteo, Timòteo

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Timoteo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Bolivia

    Also written Timóteo

  • Swahili given name1.7K records spelled Timoteo5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru, United States, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Timóteo, Timotéo

  • Indonesian given name527 records spelled Timoteo6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Timöteo, Timotéo, Timóteo

  • Russian given name203 records spelled Timoteo6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тимотео, Timóteo

  • Hindi given name171 records spelled Timoteo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Timóteo

44 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●

Timoteo 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 Spanish, Timothy (biblical character)

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

  • In Spanish, Griego Timótheos < timáō 'honrar' + theós 'Dios'; 'el que honra a Dios'

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Colui che onora gli dei

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy

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

  • In Hawaiian, Timothy (biblical character; book of the Bible)

    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●

05101519001950200014 · 1966

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Timoteo in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19002
19041
19052
19061
19082
19094
19102
19111
19123
19136
19143
19151
19163
19172
19182
19194
19202
19215
19226
19236
19244
19253
19263
19275
19286
19295
19306
19316
19324
193311
19345
19357
19366
19375
19386
19395
19405
19413
19425
19436
19443
19456
19462
19476
19489
194910
195010
19515
19527
19535
19545
19558
19562
19575
19588
19598
19603
19614
19629
19634
19643
196510
196614
19677
196910
19707
19716
19725
19734
19759
19766
19773
19788
19793
19809
19814
19827
19837
19843
19857
19864
19875
19882
19901
19914
19923
19932
19944
19952
19963
19974
19985
19998
20005
20016
20025
20034
20045
20057
20065
20073
20082
20099
20103
20115
20128
20139
20146
20156
20165
20176
20188
20195
20203
20217
20225
20237
20249

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 118 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Timoteo Viti, b. 1469Timoteo Menéndez, b. 1790Timoteo Aparicio, b. 1814Timoteo Ogando, b. 1818Timoteo Luberza, b. 1820Timoteo Pasini, b. 1829Timoteo Briet Montaud, b. 1859Julián Lago, b. 1946Liont, b. 1992

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 63 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Timoteo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.1K#4,544
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.1K#3,835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,704
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#1,012
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#2,482
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—986#1,582
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020667#36,150
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010645#34,967
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024603#873
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000432#46,426
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024276#423

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 2026-09-12 data build · 694 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Timoteo?
We estimate roughly 850 thousand people bear Timoteo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Timoteo have the most bearers?
We estimate about 802 thousand people bear Timoteo in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled timothy.
How common is Timoteo compared with other names?
In the United States, Timoteo is the 52nd most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Timoteo a male or female name?
Timoteo 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 Timoteo mean?
Recorded meaning: From Greek. See }Timothy in main dictionary.
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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, “Timoteo” — the 52nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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