Theofanis
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/θeofanis/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from θεοφανης
Theofanis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Greek Θεοφάνης (Theofánis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
- GRGreece≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 300K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 430K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Theofanis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Θεοφανης in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Transliteration of Greek Θεοφάνης (Theofánis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Theofanis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #899 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 45 | Θεοφανης | 77 |
| CY Cyprus | #840 | 891as Θεοφανης | 1 in 1.4K | 891 | Theofanis | 25 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | Theofanis | 4 |
| US United States | — | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 147 | Theofanis | 85 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 595K | listed | Theofanis | 53 |
| SE Sweden | — | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | Theofanis | 9 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 432K | listed | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); the de-munich-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Theofanis 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, A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεοφάνης (Theofánis).
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Theophanes of Mytileneb. 100GRnot in their usual name1st century BC Greek historian and friend of Pompey
- Theophanes of Byzantiumb. 600not in their usual nameByzantine historian
- Theophanes the Confessorb. 759TRnot in their usual nameByzantine aristocrat, monk and historian (c.758/60–c.817/8)
- Theophanes the Brandedb. 775ILnot in their usual nameByzantine monk and composer (775-845)
- Theophanesb. 801not in their usual nameByzantine admiral and diplomat
- Theophanes Kerameusb. 1050not in their usual nameItalian bishop
- Theophanes the Greekb. 1340TRnot in their usual nameByzantine-Russian artist (c.1340-c.1410)
- Theophanes the Cretanb. 1490GRnot in their usual nameIcon painter from Crete (died 1559)
- Theofanis Kakridesb. 1869GRGreek writer, philologist and university teacher (1869-1929)
- Theofanis Kakridisb. 1933GRGreek classical philologist, columnist, and university professor (1933–2019)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 147 | #45,337 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,547 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 23 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Theofanis mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Greek Θεοφάνης (Theofánis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Theofanis?
- In Greek /θeofanis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Theofanis a male or female name?
- Theofanis is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Theofanis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Theofanis in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled θεοφανης.
- How common is the name Theofanis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Theofanis in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Theofanis compared with other names?
- In Greece, Theofanis is the 899th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theofanisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Theofanis” — the 899th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.