How to write “Timothy” in Korean
티모시 ti-mo-si
What Korean friends call you
- 티모시야 ti-mo-si-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 티모시 씨 ti-mo-si-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work
Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.
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Korean spellings of Timothy
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 티머시; most Koreans write 티모시.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Timothy Weah 티모시 (sometimes 티머시); Timothy Olyphant 티모시 (sometimes 티머시); Timothy Dalton 티모시 (sometimes 티머시).
Well-known people named Timothy, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Timothy Leary — 티모시 리어리
- Timothy Fosu-Mensah — 티모시 포수멘사
- Timothy Chandler — 티모시 챈들러
- Timothy Pickering — 티모시 피커링
834,097 babies were named Timothy in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 31st most common name.
Block by block
- 티 = ㅌ + ㅣ · 4 strokes
Also in 티: Destiny 데스티니 · Steven 스티븐 · Trinity 트리니티
- 모 = ㅁ + ㅗ · 5 strokes
Also in 모: Morgan 모건 · Monica 모니카 · Monique 모니크
- 시 = ㅅ + ㅣ · 3 strokes
Also in 시: Alexis 알렉시스 · Jessica 제시카 · Sydney 시드니
티모시 takes 12 strokes in all.
More names: Jeremiah 제러마이아 · Stephanie 스테파니 · Maria 마리아 · Jesus 헤수스 · Addison 애디슨
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