Till (name)
Till is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the old Franconian thiuda , also Old High German diot, diet ("people"), such as B. also with the names Dieter or Dietmar . From this, pet forms such as Dietz (o) or Dietilo developed , which were further developed regionally via Tillo, T (hi) ilo , Tille to Till with the longer pet form Til (l) man (n) .
The meaning is often based on Dietrich : "The mighty among the people", "Ruler of the people" or derived from the old Frisian word til = "good", "capable", which is why the meaning in northern Germany is different in contrast to the rest of Germany. A border from the Franconian to the Frisian Till can be drawn roughly from northern Westphalia including East Westphalia-Lippe via Lower Saxony without the region of southern Lower Saxony (also without the districts of Goslar and Holzminden ), north-western Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein . In northeastern Germany the meanings are mixed up.
name day
The name Till has the following name days:
- January 2nd
- January 16 Tilman (Till, Thilo, Tillmann) [1]
- 5. March
- 17th of May
- May 18
variants
Well-known namesake
First name
- Till Backhaus (* 1959), German politician
- Till Wyler von Ballmoos (* 1979), Swiss theater director and musician
- Till Bastian (* 1949), German physician, publicist and author
- Till Behrens (* 1931), German architect, urban planner and industrial designer
- Till Brönner (* 1971), German trumpeter
- Till Burgwächter (* 1975), German writer and journalist
- Till Demtrøder (* 1967), German actor, voice actor and author
- Till Ehrlich (* 1964), German journalist and author
- Till Endemann (* 1976), German film director and screenwriter
- Till Fellner (* 1972), Austrian pianist
- Till Feser (* 1972), German ice hockey player
- Till Franzen (* 1973), German director and screenwriter
- Till Fuhrmann (* 1970), German costume designer
- Till Hagen (* 1949), German voice actor and actor
- Till Nikolaus von Heiseler (* 1962), German author and director
- Till Helmke (* 1984), German sprinter
- Till Hoheneder (* 1965), German comedian and musician
- Till Kinzel (* 1968), German historian and literary scholar
- Till Kirsten (* 1937), German experimental physicist
- Till Klockow (1908–1970), German actress and voice actress
- Till de Kock (1915–2010), German wood sculptor and puppet maker
- Till Lindemann (* 1963), German singer
- Till Mairhofer (* 1958), Austrian publisher and writer
- Till Meyer (* 1944), former German terrorist of the June 2nd Movement and agent of the GDR State Security
- Till Müller-Klug (* 1967), German author and director
- Till Nachtmann (* 1973), German artist
- Till Nassif (* 1971), German moderator, editor and author
- Till Roenneberg (* 1953), German behavioral scientist and biologist
- Till Schmerbeck (* 1969), German film producer
- Till Steffen (* 1973), German politician
- Till Topf (* 1962), German actor and voice actor
- Till Völger (* 1987), German voice actor
- Till Reiners (* 1985), German comedian
Fictional people
- Till Eulenspiegel , jester and eponymous hero of a Middle Low German folk book
- Till artist name of the Bütten speaker Dieter Brandt
family name
- Alfred Till (1879–1959), Austrian geologist and paleontologist, soil scientist
- Eric Till (* 1929), British director, film producer and screenwriter
- Christian Till (* 1977), German ice hockey goalkeeper
- Emmett Till (1941–1955), American victim of racism
- Geoffrey Till (* 1945), British naval historian
- Hans Till (1920–2012), Austrian gardener and cactus collector
- Holger Till (* 1962), German doctor and university professor
- Ignaz Till (1891-1945), Austrian trader and politician (SPÖ)
- James Till (* 1931), Canadian biophysicist and cancer researcher
- Jochen Till (* 1966), German writer and playwright
- Johann Till the Elder (1800–1889), Austrian painter
- Johann Till the Younger (1827–1894), Austrian painter
- Leopold Till (1830–1893), Austrian history and genre painter
- Lucas Till (* 1990), American actor
- Rudolf Till (archivist) (1906–1973), Austrian historian and archivist
- Rudolf Till (1911–1979), German classical philologist
- Walter Till (Coptologist) (1894–1963), Austrian Coptologist
- Walter Till (biologist) (* 1956), Austrian botanist
- Vinzenz Till (1838–1925), Austrian mill owner, inventor and writer