Given name · also Latin
Teofila
Teofila is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Polish and Cebuano.
Original LatinTheophila
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Teofila comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Teofila is a feminine form of Teofilo.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teofila through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80
- 0 boys · 80 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 8 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 girls is 5 in 1935. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,250 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.
Teofila’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Teofila has a diminutive in PILANG. In Italian usage, Teofila is a feminine form of Teofilo. In Polish usage, Teofila has a conventional equivalent in the Latvian form Teofilija.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Teofila has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
7 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Teofila
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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