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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Toimín ‘son of Toimín’, a pet form of Tomás, Gaelic form of Thomas.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tiomáin ‘descendant of Tiomán’, a personal name from a diminutive of tiom ‘pliant’, ‘soft’.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tiománaigh (see Timoney).
  • English : patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Timm.

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