Filemon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Filemon has been given to 514 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Filemon, 2022

1 in 677,000

Filemon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filemon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Filemon means

Filemon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Filemon is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 514 boys were recorded with the name Filemon between 1917 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1928; its best national rank was #2,309 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Filemon?

Filemon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only: 1 in 349,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Filemon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filemon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filemons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filemon was born before 1971 — so the typical Filemon is around 54 today.

Median birth year: 1971; About 54 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 18.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 348; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Filemon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1928 (13)
Years since peak: 97; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,309; 1928

Spellings of Filemon

Filemon is not the most common spelling — Clemon is, with 30.3% against Filemon's 11.6%.

Clemon30.3%1,339
Lemon24.2%1,071
Philemon20.9%925
Tilmon13.0%574
Filemon11.6%514

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Filemon is used

Across 1910–2025, Filemon was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 400,821 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New Mexico1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Filemon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Filemon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,309; 1928
Peak year: 1928; 13 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 514
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Filemon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Filimon Filippo Filipe Filbert Filmon Caedmon Filmore Jermon Daimon Dezmon Philemon Fillmore Timon Kemon Symon Shermon Thermon Desmon Filip Filiberto Filomeno Freemon Kamon Daymon

Sibling names for Filemon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Edward Paul Charline Ardis Germaine Darline Marvel Richard

For a brother

Jules Bud Rolland Normand Laverne Jewel Carrol Napoleon

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