Theophile
Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
- Peak · boys
- 1887 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 221since 1880
Theophile over time
Rank among boys' names. Theophile has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
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| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
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| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
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| 1936 | #2,452 | 9 |
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| 1931 | #2,471 | 10 |
| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,048 | 15 |
| 1927 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #2,804 | 10 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #2,152 | 14 |
| 1918 | #2,543 | 11 |
| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,829 | 8 |
| 1914 | #2,915 | 6 |
| 1913 | #2,092 | 8 |
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| 1893 | #768 | 8 |
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| 1891 | #963 | 5 |
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| 1889 | #974 | 5 |
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| 1887 | #752 | 7 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #836 | 6 |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #837 | 6 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Theophile was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Theophile is popular in 1889
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Theophile
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2020
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1887 at #752 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1888, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · 1880–1893
- Highest: 1 in 14,040 boys born in 1893 were named Theophile (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 345,215 boys born in 2020 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #752 in 1887, was only 1 in 14,487 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.0% of all boys named Theophile (73) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 29 | #752 (1887) | #862 |
| 1890s | 13 | #768 (1893) | #866 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 55 | #2,092 (1913) | #2,581 |
| 1920s | 73 | #2,048 (1928) | #3,297 |
| 1930s | 26 | #2,452 (1936) | #2,737 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 6 | #7,770 (1994) | #7,770 |
| 2000s | 6 | #10,994 (2009) | #10,994 |
| 2010s | 8 | #8,803 (2010) | #8,803 |
| 2020s | 5 | #12,022 (2020) | #12,022 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Theophile in 1889
Top boys' names in 1889
More about 1889
boys
110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 22,116 of them was named Theophile, which outranked 12.3% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 137 names at #974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.