Entry № 10606 · Hebrew origin

Timna Timna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEEM-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Restrained (Eliphaz's concubine)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "restrained (eliphaz's concubine)".

Timna (תִּמְנַע) means "restrained" in Hebrew. In Genesis 36:12, Timna was the Horite princess and concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz — mother of Amalek, ancestor of the Amalekites.

Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.

Restrained. Horite princess, mother of Amalek.

The name in its native script.

תִּמְנַע
Transliteration
Timnāʿ
Pronunciation
/ ˈtiːm.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Timna stands.

Timna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Timnas before her.

Real people
Timna
Horite princess.
In fiction
Timna
Genesis 36:12.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Timna.

The number behind Timna.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Timna reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.