Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : habitational name from any of various places named with this word, probably from Sicilian timpuni ‘lump of earth’, ‘clod’, as for example Timpone in Sapri, Salerno province, or Timpone Carnalevari in Cutro, Crotone province.
- Italian : from an augmentative of Tempo, a short form of the personal name Bontempo.