Fillmore

Boys' name

Filled, fertile + lake

Fillmore has been given to 239 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1915, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Fillmore, 1951

1 in 614,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fillmore: meaning, origin, and history

Filled, fertile + lake

surname transfer

What Fillmore means

Fillmore means “filled, fertile + lake”, associated with full and mere.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English full (“filled, fertile”) + mere (“lake”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Fillmore is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Fillmore comes through Old English full.

Fillmore is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 239 boys were recorded with the name Fillmore between 1895 and 1951. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,140 in 1895.

How common is Fillmore?

Fillmore had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1951, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1951: 1 in 614,000; 6 of 3,682,692 births
Among boys only: 1 in 314,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1951: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 425,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Fillmore 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 1951 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 425,442 children born in 1951 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fillmore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fillmores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fillmore was born before 1926 — so the typical Fillmore is around 99 today.

Median birth year: 1926; About 99 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 49.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Fillmore 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 1915 (19)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,140; 1895

Spellings of Fillmore

Fillmore is not the most common spelling — Gilmore is, with 75.9% against Fillmore's 24.1%.

Gilmore75.9%753
Fillmore24.1%239

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.

Fillmore 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: #1,140; 1895
Peak year: 1915; 19 that year
First recorded: 1895
Last recorded: 1951
All-time count: 239
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Fillmore

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

Filmore Filomeno Filippo Filimon Filipe Filbert Filemon Philmore Filiberto Jadore Filberto Delmore Seymore Valmore Amore Commodore Theordore Glenmore Theadore Wilmore Gilmore Ettore Filip Filadelfio

Sibling names for Fillmore

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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