Timo

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1. a diminutive of the male given name Timotheüs [=Timothy]

Timo

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy

• Timmo, Timmu, Timoteos

Short, vernacular form of Timoteus, perhaps in Eastern Finland via short forms of Russian Тимофе́й (Timoféj).^[1] The standard Finnish equivalent of the English given name Timothy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtimo/, [ˈt̪imo̞]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification^(key): Ti‧mo
• Hyphenation^(key): Ti‧mo

Timo

1. a male given name
   • 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers. Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola ), Chapter 1:

     Veljesten nimet vanhimmasta nuorimpaan ovat: Juhani, Tuomas, Aapo, Simeoni, Timo, Lauri ja Eero.

     In order of age, the brothers are Juhani, Tuomas, Aapo, Simeoni, Timo, Lauri, and Eero.

2. a Finnish surname transferred from the given name

• (surnames) Timonen

• Timo is the 2^nd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 42,124 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,420 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
• The surname Timo belongs to 70 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Tomi, moti, omit, toim, toim., tomi

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Timo

1. a diminutive of the male given names Timotheus or Dietmar, popular since the 1980's

Ultimately from Russian Тимофей (Timofej).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtimo/, [ˈtʲimo̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtimoi̯/, [ˈtimo̞ˑiˑ]
• Rhymes: -imo, -imoi̯
• Hyphenation: Ti‧mo

Timo

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Tim

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 586