Tímea
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Tímea, or Timea, is a female given name which is popular mostly in Hungary and Hungarian-speaking regions such as parts of Transylvania (Romania) and Slovakia.
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
- Tímea Paksy (born 1983), Hungarian sprint canoer
- Tímea Nagy (born 1970), Hungarian fencer
- Tímea Nagy (activist) (born 1977), Hungarian trafficked worker in Canada
- Tímea Babos (born 1993), Hungarian tennis player
- Timea Bacsinszky (born 1989), Swiss tennis player
- Timea Toth (swimmer) (born 1968), Israeli Olympic swimmer
- Timea Majorová (born 1974), Slovak fitness competitor