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Theophile

Boys' name

Feminine form of Theophilus

Theophile has been given to 221 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Theophile, 2020

1 in 668,000

Theophile 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Theophile: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Theophilus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Theophile means

Theophile is a feminine form of Theophilus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Theophile is used in Ancient Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Theophile → 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, 221 boys were recorded with the name Theophile between 1880 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1928; its best national rank was #814 in 1887.

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 Theophile?

Theophile had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Theophile 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Theophile. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Theophiles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Theophile was born before 1921 — so the typical Theophile is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
25
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1920s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Theophile 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
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (15)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#814
1887

Spellings of Theophile

Theophile is not the most common spelling — Theophilus is, with 91.7% against Theophile's 8.3%.

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.

Where Theophile is used

Across 1910–2025, Theophile was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 254,776 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Theophile has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Theophile around the world

Where Theophile 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.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1900–2025
    #715
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Theophile by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#814
1887
Peak year
1928
15 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
221
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Theophile

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

TheophilTheodorosTheodoroTheopolisTheloniousTheodorusTheordoreTheoplisTheseusThedfordTheranTheodoricTheodenTheojamesTherronTheodusTheoryTheophilusThelmerThelbertTheorenTheodinTheodoraThelton

Sibling names for Theophile

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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