Timea
Only 62 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. Greek at root, the name means honor, or respect.
Timea Pronunciation
Timea is pronounced tee-ME-ah (/tiˈmɛa/).
What Timea means
Where Timea comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Timea began in a book. The Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai coined it for the heroine of his 1872 novel Az arany ember, and he reached back to Greek for the root. That root is timé, honor, the same word that stands behind Timothy and Timon. So a soft-sounding name carries a hard Greek noun: worth, respect, the regard one person owes another.
Jókai may have had a real Greek forerunner in mind. Some point to Timaea, a queen of Sparta, as the shadow behind his invention. The link stays a conjecture. What is not in doubt is the meaning attached to Timea today: honor, respect.
The sense of honor sits in the name plainly. Read a school register in Kraków and Timea will not look foreign there. It arrived in Polish use through a Hungarian novel and a Greek word, and both are still legible: timé, honor.
How many people are named Timea
1 in 363610 women in Poland is named Timea. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4678 among female names.
Timea as a middle name
Timea is a first name for 62 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2212th, between Tia (12) and Tracy (12).
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#2210 Tanja12
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#2211 Tia12
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#2212 Timea12
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#2213 Tracy12
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#2214 Trinidad12