Teofan
Greek at root, from *theos*, "god," and a verb for appearing: the name reads as the showing of god. In Poland most people go a lifetime without meeting one, and a boy who carries it hears it mostly when a register is read aloud.
Teofan Pronunciation
Teofan is pronounced te-O-fahn (/tɛˈɔfan/).
What Teofan means
Where Teofan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Teofan comes from Greek. It is a compound, plain in its parts. The name joins theos, "god," with a verb, phainein, meaning to appear or to show. Together they give the sense recorded here: manifestation of god. That reading sits in the roots themselves.
The Greek form, Theophanes, belonged to real people. Theophanes the Confessor wrote a Byzantine chronicle in the ninth century. Theophanes the Greek painted icons in medieval Novgorod and Moscow. The same root appears in Theophany, the Orthodox feast of God's appearing, kept on 6 January. Teofan is the Polish spelling of the same name.
In Poland the name stays rare. A boy named Teofan meets it once a year, when the teacher reads the class register. The meaning holds: objawienie się boga, the showing of god.
When Teofan celebrates name day
Teofan appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Teofan
1 in 4269238 men in Poland is named Teofan. 5 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #27917 among male names.