Teofilo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: do gr. Theophilos; patronímico, nome do fundador da família
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/teofilo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Teofilo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 950(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.8K
- ECEcuador1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 953 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)do gr. Theophilos; patronímico, nome do fundador da família
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Teofilo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #192 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 953 | — | Teofilo | 64 |
| PH Philippines | #618 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 15K | Teofilo | 65 |
| MX Mexico | #668 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 135 | Teofilo | 97 |
| VE Venezuela | #647 | 7,139 | 1 in 4K | 7.1K | Teofilo | 19 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #128 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Teofilo | 27 |
| EC Ecuador | #388 | 6,309 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.3K | Teofilo | 28 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Teofilo | 25 |
| PY Paraguay | #393 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Teofilo | 21 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names. 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)Teofilo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal greco Theóphilos, ‘amato da Dio’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of THEOPHILUS .
as a word
In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to English Theophilus
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)- Theophilus Presbyterb. 1070DEnot in their usual name12th-century German monk and writer
- Teofilo Folengob. 1491ITItalian poet and writer
- Teófilo Bragab. 1843PTPortuguese politician (1843–1924)
- Teofilo Yldefonsob. 1903PHFilipino swimmer (1902–1942)
- Teófilo Martínezb. 1913ESSpanish voice actor
- Teófilo Cruzb. 1942USPuerto Rican basketball player (1942-2005)
- Teófilo Cubillasb. 1949PEPeruvian footballer
- Teófilo Stevensonb. 1952CUCuban boxer (1952–2012)
- Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalemb. 1952GRnot in their usual namePatriarch of Jerusalem
- Teófilo Gutiérrezb. 1985COColombian footballer
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 7.1K | #198 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 6.3K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 6.3K | #251 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 135 | #374 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2020 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Teofilo?
- In the etymology graph, Theo, Theophilus and Théophile are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Teofilo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /teofilo/; in Portuguese /tjufilu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Teofilo a male or female name?
- Teofilo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Venezuela (asosab), Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and Spain (INE), among others.
- What does the name Teofilo mean?
- Recorded meaning: do gr. Theophilos; patronímico, nome do fundador da família
- In which country does Teofilo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Teofilo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teofilo.
- How common is the name Teofilo?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 7,139 people named Teofilo, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Teofilo compared with other names?
- In Peru, Teofilo is the 192nd most common given name of 254,284 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/teofiloThe 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, “Teofilo” — the 192nd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.