Timia
Feminine
Timia looks like it belongs to the Greek family that produced Timothy, and it does not. The Greek word in question means honor, and it is a genuinely productive element; this name resembles it and belongs to twentieth-century American naming instead.
How old is the name Timia?
Timia first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Timia alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,200 people named Timia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Timia most popular?
Timia peaked in 2000, reaching #2332 nationally. See the whole 2000 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Timia
The Greek word is time, said as two syllables, and it means honor in the concrete ancient sense: the standing a person has in the eyes of others, the share of respect and property that goes with a position, the thing that can be taken away by an insult. It is the word at the center of the quarrel that opens the Iliad, where a commander takes a prize from a subordinate and the whole poem follows from the injury. It produced Timothy, honoring God, and Timon, and the word timocracy for a state where standing is measured by property. None of that is in this name. What is in this name is three easy syllables assembled by ear in the second half of the last century.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source and no meaning. The opening syllable is in wide circulation in American naming and the ending is one of the commonest in the record. The resemblance to the Greek element is a resemblance, and naming it here is meant to prevent the resemblance being reported as a derivation.
Pronouncing Timia
TIM-ee-uh
Three syllables with the stress at the front. Some families say ti-MEE-uh with the weight in the middle, and the spelling settles nothing; the first person to say it aloud fixes it.
Nicknames for Timia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 200066 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2332reached in 2000
- Change vs 2023
- −46.2%7 in 2024, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Timia in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Timias among us
people named Timia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Timia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Mia and Tia are two short forms that are both entirely current.
- The rhythm is soft and open and goes with almost any surname.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English.
- Two live stress patterns and the spelling chooses neither.
- It will be heard as Tamia and Tiana, both of which are in the same records.
- There is no meaning to give a child who asks.
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Frequently asked
- How many Timias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Timia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Timia in 2025?
- Timia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Timia with classmates?
- Timia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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