Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇬🇷 Timon
/TEE · mon/
Meaning
“I honor or worthy”
Greek name meaning 'I honor' or 'worthy'; borne by a Shakespearean tragic hero in Timon of Athens, and by the comic meerkat in The Lion King.
Nicknames
tim
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Niche but durable; the Shakespeare and Disney associations pull in opposite directions.
The cultural moment.
Rare but consistent in Germany and the Netherlands since the 1990s.