MEANING & HISTORY
What does Teofila mean?
Teofila is explicitly borrowed from Spanish Teófila in Cebuano. The academy and the consulted name reference identify Teófila with the feminine Theophilus family, whose Greek elements concern deity and affection or belovedness.
Friend of God and beloved by God are traditional interpretations, so the component explanation preserves their relationship. The missing accent in this recorded spelling should not be silently restored in a person's own name.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From Spanish Teófila.
a female given name
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Teofila in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Teofila
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Teofilo♀Theophilus family: friend of God
- Teófilo♂Loving God or friend of God
- Leonila♀Spanish Leonilla-family form, interpreted as little lioness
- Leila♀Night
- Tecla♀Glory of God, through Greek Thekla
- Teela♀Finnish spelling of Dela or Tela
- Teodora♀Gift of God
- Teodulo♂Servant of God, through Greek Theodoulos
What rhymes with Teofila?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Teofila further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Teofila (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — teo10fila (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial entry, not user submissions: Spanish feminine Theophilus form.
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — Theophilus (opens in a new tab)
Greek deity and beloved/dear elements.
- Real Academia Galega — Te%C3%B3filo (opens in a new tab)
Theóphilos interpretations and explicit Spanish Teófila correspondence.