Given name
Theofanis
“god”·“seeming, appearing”
Theofanis is a masculine given name from Greek.
Original GreekΘεοφάνης
Meaning & origin
What it means
Theofanis is a romanization of Θεοφάνης. Θεοφάνης is built from elements meaning “god” and “seeming, appearing”.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Theofanis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 5 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 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 150 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.
Theofanis’s family of names
In English usage, Theofanis was borrowed from the Greek form Θεοφάνης.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Theofanis
- Theophanes the ConfessorByzantine aristocrat, monk and historian (c.758/60–c.817/8)759–817
- Theophanes the GreekByzantine-Russian artist (c.1340-c.1410)1335–1410
- Theophanes the CretanIcon painter from Crete (died 1559)1490–1559
- Theophanes of Mytilene1st century BC Greek historian and friend of Pompey99 BC–43 BC
- Theophanes of ByzantiumByzantine historian600–600
- Theophanes ChrysobalantesByzantine physician
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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