Given name & surname
Teofil
“one who is loved by God”
Teofil is a variant of Theophilus. One Greek interpretation is “one who is loved by God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Teofil is a variant of Theophilus. One Greek interpretation is “one who is loved by God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Teofil is a variant of Theophilus. An origin associated with Theophilus is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Theophilus, from Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος, built from Ancient Greek θεός + φῐ́λος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teofil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 68
- 68 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 181 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Teofil’s family of names
In Polish usage, Teofil has a diminutive in Teoś. In Polish usage, Teofil has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Teofilo. Teofil has a related form in Theophilus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Teofil has relatives in 12 languages.
13 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Amadeusequivalent
- Amadeoequivalent
- TheophilGerman
- Theofilosequivalent
- Amedeoequivalent
- Teofilahas masculine form
- Bohumilequivalent
- TeofiloItalian, Esperanto
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- GottliebGerman
- Bogomilequivalent
- Amadeuszequivalent
- Teofilusequivalent
- Gotliebequivalent
- Amadioequivalent
- Теофилequivalent
- Amadeuequivalent
- ΘεόφιλοςGreek, gr
- ThéophileFrench
- Theofilequivalent
- Bogumilequivalent
- Theofielequivalent
- Bogumiłequivalent
- Amédéeequivalent
- ФеофилRussian
- TeófiloPortuguese, Spanish
- ФеафілBelarusian
- ТэафілBelarusian
People named Teofil
- Teofil Lenartowiczpoet and writer (1822–1893)
- Teofil KwiatkowskiPolish artist (1809–1891)
- Teofil CodreanuRomanian footballer (1941-2016)
- Teofil FabinyHungarian politician (1822-1908)
- Teofil LapinskiPolish revolutionary1827–1886
- Teofil WilskiPolish prelate and priest1935–2022
- Teofil PančićSerbian journalist1965–2025
- Teofil ŻebrawskiPolish mathematician, bibliographer, architect, biologist, archeologist, cartographer, geodesist (1800–1887)
- Teofil Kopystynskyipainter (1844-1916)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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