Theophila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θeɪəˈfiɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Theophila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 283K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 283K (inferred from the name graph)
61 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Theophila 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 | 61 | 1 in 283K | 61 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | listed | Theophila | 18 |
| US United States | — | — | 10 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | listed | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
61 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: the french-names-benoist-2009 register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the wgnd-ng-names register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Theophila Palmer Gwatkinb. 1757British painter (1757–1848)
- Theophila Carlile Campbellb. 1837GBEnglish writer
- Theophila Noab. 1858PLHolocaust victim (born 1858)
- Theophila von Wassilkob. 1893ATAustrian archivist
- Amanda Theophila Schefflerb. 1950botanist (1950 - )
- Theophila TownsendTownsend, Theophila (d. 1692), Quaker activist and writer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 61 | #7,474 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 17 | #21,429 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 10 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | WGND 2.0 — Nigeria given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Theophila?
- In the etymology graph, Teofila and Teófila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Theophila?
- A machine transcription gives /θeɪəˈfiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Theophila a male or female name?
- Theophila is a female 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.
- In which country does Theophila have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 61 people named Theophila, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Theophila most common?
- Theophila is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 283 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Theophila?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 61 people named Theophila, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Theophila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theophilaThe 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, “Theophila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.