Theofilus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Theofilus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 596K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 31M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 596K (inferred from the name graph)
29 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Theofilus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 29 | 1 in 596K | 29 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Theofilus | 4 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Theofilus | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Theofilus | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Theofilus | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Theofilus | 3 |
29 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 29 | #9,318 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Is Theofilus a male or female name?
- Theofilus 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.
- What are other forms of the name Theofilus?
- In the etymology graph, Teofilo, Theophilus and Théophile are forms of the same name in other languages; Theo is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Theofilus have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 29 people named Theofilus, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Theofilus most common?
- Theofilus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 596 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Theofilus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 29 people named Theofilus, about 1 in 596 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Theofilus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theofilusThe 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, “Theofilus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.