Tímea (original) (raw)
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Tímea
| Gender | feminine |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Hungarian |
| Name day | May 3 |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Greek |
| Meaning | "honour," "sweet-natured," "good soul/mind/vitality," "cheerfulness," "good-spirits," "good mood." |
| Other names | |
| Nickname(s) | Timi |
| Derived | Euthymia |
Tímea, Timea or originally, Timéa is a popular Hungarian female given name.
The name Tímea was created by the popular Hungarian author Mór Jókai for a figure in his 1872 novel The Man with the Golden Touch. It is derived from Euthymia, a Greek noun meaning "sweet natured".[1]
People with the name
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- Timaea, Queen of Sparta (fl. 5th century BC), wife of Agis II
- Tímea Babos (born 1993), Hungarian tennis player
- Timea Bacsinszky (born 1989), Swiss tennis player
- Tímea Gál (born 1984), Hungarian football player
- Tímea Kiss (born 1973), Hungarian archer
- Tímea Lőrincz (born 1992), Romanian cross-country skier
- Timea Majorová (born 1974), Slovak fitness competitor
- Tímea Nagy (born 1970), Hungarian fencer
- Tímea Nagy (activist) (born 1977), Hungarian trafficked worker in Canada
- Tímea Paksy (born 1983), Hungarian sprint canoer
- Tímea Papp (born 1973), Hungarian dancer
- Tímea Sugár (born 1977), Hungarian handball coach
- Tímea Szabó (born 1976), Hungarian humanitarian worker, journalist and politician
- Tímea Szögi (born 1990), Hungarian handball player
- Timea Tătar (born 1989), Romanian handball player
- Tímea Tóth (born 1980), Hungarian former handballer
- Timea Toth (swimmer) (1968), Israeli Olympic swimmer