Iwas wondering about my family we are from saskatchewan canada.My grandfathers name is Karl but changed it to Carl during world war two.Iwould like to know when did my family arrive in canada? What is the German meaning of Timm?Are we all some how related?What part of germany are we from?will some one help me please.

Hi Jeff. Don't know if this is still your email account. My maiden name is Timm. I grew up in eastern Nebraska. I know the Timm surname is a northern Germany name, but I haven't been able to track it much further than that. Good luck!

Hi Jeff. Don't know if this is still your email account. My maiden name is Timm. I grew up in eastern Nebraska. I know the Timm surname is a northern Germany name, but I haven't been able to track it much further than that. Good luck!

Hi there.

From what I gathered from a genealogy product I bought several years ago, "Timm" comes from one of two sources: It is derived from "theudemar", an older German word meaning "famous among your people" and/or it is an occupational name, being an abbreviated form of "Zimmerman", which means "carpenter" in German (thus, probably Timm, Timms, Timmer, Timmerman, Zimm, Zimmer, and Zimmerman are somewhat related).

While I can't speak for all Timms, I know in my family's case it's definitely the latter, as my great-grandfather and at least two of his brothers were carpenters.

Form what I've gathered, most of the Timms are from Pommerania (Pommern in German), an area of north-west Germany around Berlin I think (and you'll find many Timms in that area of Germany today). Like many Germans, quite a lot of Timms left Germany in the early and mid 1800's through the port of Hamburg.

Russell S. Timm