Tímea

For the genus of sponges, see Timea (sponge).

Tímea, Timea or originally, Timéa is a popular Hungarian female given name.

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

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

• 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
• Timea Gardiner (born 2003), British-American basketball 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