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Filimon

Boys' name

Form of Philemon

Filimon has been given to 244 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1935, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Filimon, 2006

1 in 791,000

Filimon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filimon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Philemon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Filimon means

Filimon is a form of Philemon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Filimon is used in Romanian (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Filimon → Philemon. The family’s meaning is “kindly, affectionate”, recorded in English with the source elements philḗmōn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philemon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 244 boys were recorded with the name Filimon between 1923 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1935; its best national rank was #2,298 in 1935.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Filimon?

Filimon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filimon 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filimon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filimons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filimon was born before 1951 — so the typical Filimon is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
126
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Choose a decade

1930s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Filimon 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
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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 1935 (11)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,298
1935

Spellings of Filimon

Filimon is not the most common spelling — Tilmon is, with 43.1% against Filimon's 18.3%.

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 Filimon is used

Across 1910–2025, Filimon was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 1,091,892 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 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. Filimon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Filimon 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
#2,298
1935
Peak year
1935
11 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
244
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Filimon

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

FilemonFilmonFilippoFilipeFilmoreFilbertFillmoreFilomenoCaedmonFreemonJermonAhmonShermonTillmonKamonAemonDaimonVermonDezmonDjimonFermonNormonPhilemonSymon

Sibling names for Filimon

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

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