Meaning & Origin
Timonthy is a boy's baby name of Greek origin, a phonetic misspelling variant of Timothy, derived from the Greek Timotheos, meaning 'honoring God' or 'one who honors God.' The -on- inversion appears in American birth records from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Timothy itself has deep biblical roots — Saint Timothy was a companion of the Apostle Paul — and has been a steadily popular choice in English-speaking countries for centuries. Timonthy represents the kind of phonetic variation that crept into records when names were recorded by ear rather than by spelling convention.