Theophile
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Theophile is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Rwanda it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 33K◐
- USUnited States1 in 186K
- TGTogo1 in 841
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- Sources
- 244 ●
- 1 in 4.9K ◐
across 11 countries
27K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Théophile in CH Switzerland, CI Côte d’Ivoire, BJ Benin and 2 more, Theophilus in NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and Teofil in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 7,880 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.9K | 7.9K | — | 1 |
| FR France | #727 | 2,055 | 24K rec. | 1 in 33K | 14K | Theophile | 244 |
| US United States | — | 1,784 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | Theophile | 86 |
| CM Cameroon | #194 | 562 | 579 rec. | — | 1 | Theophile | 20 |
| BE Belgium | — | 452 | 408 rec. | — | 1 | Theophile | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 397△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 44K | 397 | — | 9 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #474 | 275 | 16 rec. | — | 5 | Theophile | 8 |
| TG Togo | #66 | 255 | 18 rec. | — | 1 | Theophile | 10 |
| MQ Martinique | #501 | 240 | 5 rec. | — | 5 | Theophile | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #382 | 200 | 183 rec. | — | 4 | Theophile | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 109 | — | 1 in 94K | 109 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 99 | 95 rec. | — | 2 | Theophile | 16 |
Roughly 7.9K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 4.9K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French70K92%
- English2.6K3%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)4501%
- Dutch3981%
- Western Frisian3371%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 70,389 | 92% |
| English | 2,565 | 3% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 450 | 1% |
| Dutch | 398 | 1% |
| Western Frisian | 337 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Theophile is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, One who loves God.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 5 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 5 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1914 | 10 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1920 | 15 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1923 | 10 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 10 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 10 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 44 years between 1901–1971. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Théophile de Viaub. 1590FRFrench poet (1590-1626)
- Rene Laennecb. 1781FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
- Jules Pelouzeb. 1807FRnot in their usual nameFrench chemist (1807–1867)
- Théophile Aubeb. 1826FRFrench admiral (1826-1890)
- Théophile Ferréb. 1846FRFrench politician (1846–1871)
- Théophile Homolleb. 1848FRFrench archaeologist and hellenist (1848-1925)
- Théophile Delcasséb. 1852FRFrench statesman (1852-1923)
- Charles Angrandb. 1854FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter (1854-1926)
- Théophile de Donderb. 1872BEBelgian physicist (1872–1957)
- René Girardb. 1923FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2016 | 14K | #2,227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 405 | #54,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 375 | #54,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 300 | #29,024 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 244 | #2,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 237 | #75,695 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 216 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 44 | #9,131 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 37 | #190 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #26,275 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #40,054 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #41,238 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 184 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Theophile?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Theophile (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Theophile have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.9 thousand people bear Theophile in Poland, more than in any other country in our records.
- How common is Theophile compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Theophile is the 41st most common given name of 701 given names recorded there.
- Is Theophile a male or female name?
- Theophile is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Theophile” — the 41st most common given name in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.