Given name
Theophilos
“one who is loved by God”
Theophilos is a variant of Theophilus. One Greek interpretation is “one who is loved by God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Theophilos is a variant of Theophilus. One Greek interpretation is “one who is loved by God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Theophilos is a variant of Theophilus. An origin associated with Theophilus is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Theophilos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,691 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,691 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Theophilos’s family of names
Theophilos has a related form in Theophilus. In Norwegian usage, Theophilos has a conventional equivalent in the French form Théophile. In Coptic usage, Theophilos is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ⲑⲉⲟⲫⲓⲗⲟⲥ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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