Theophile

Where Theophile comes from

Theophile hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1873
    Theophile Magda Eugenie von Bodisco born
    Baltic German writer and journalist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Theophile Meek born
    Canadian archaeologist
  4. 1887
    Peak, #752
    7 babies named Theophile — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Theophile Magda Eugenie von Bodisco · Baltic German writer and journalist, 1873–1944
  • Theophile Meek · Canadian archaeologist, 1881–1966

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.