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Theophil

#11,843 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Theophilus

Theophil has been given to 208 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #11,843 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Theophil, 2025

1 in 553,000

Theophil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Theophil: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Theophilus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Theophil means

Theophil is a form of Theophilus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Theophil is used in German (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Theophil → Theophilus. The family’s meaning is “love of God”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theophilus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 208 boys were recorded with the name Theophil between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,595 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Theophil?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,843
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Theophil sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Theophil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Theophils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Theophil was born before 1920 — so the typical Theophil is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Theophil rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1915 (20)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,595
1915

Spellings of Theophil

Theophil is not the most common spelling — Theophilus is, with 92.2% against Theophil's 7.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Theophil around the world

Where Theophil ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1914–2010
    #5,203
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Theophil by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,843
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,595
1915
Peak year
1915
20 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
208
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Theophil

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Theophil

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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