Timea

Familiar in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Czechia, and Slovakia, but rare elsewhere, Timea is a name with several possible origins. Some suggest is was a literary invention, created by the writer Mór Jókai for his 1872 novel Az Arany Ember ("The Man with the Golden Touch"). He possibly adapted the name from the Greek Euthymia,/em> in turn lending it the meaning "good spirits".

Alternatively, it may have a far longer history than that, deriving instead from the Greek masculine name, Timaeus ("to honor"), which appears in both Plato's Dialogues and the New Testament. There was also a historical Timea (or rather, Timaea), a Queen of Sparta.

Pronounced TIM-ay-ah.

As of October 2026, Timea ranked #17919 in US births in 2018 SSA, peaked at #8981 in 1997.