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Filomena

#4,484 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Philomena

Filomena has been given to 5,550 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #4,484 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 207 recorded.

Babies named Filomena, 2025

1 in 107,000

Filomena over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filomena: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Philomena

Romance languages, Spanish and Ancient Greek

What Filomena means

Filomena is a English equivalent of Philomena.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Filumena, ultimately from Ancient Greek Φιλομήνη (Philomḗnē).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Filomena (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Filomena is used in English, Cebuano, Dutch, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Romance languages, Spanish and Ancient Greek.

Filomena comes through Latin Filumena and Ancient Greek Φιλομήνη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philomena.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Filomena is pronounced /fi.loˈmẽ.nɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,550 girls were recorded with the name Filomena between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 207 in 1923; its best national rank was #427 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,932 in 2020 to #4,484 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,891 in 2015 to #4,484 in 2025.

How common is Filomena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,484
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filomena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filomena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filomenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filomena was born before 1925 — so the typical Filomena is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,401
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1920s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (1,577).

Is Filomena 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
+111
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+448
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,407
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.0%
Peak was 1923 (207)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#427
1907

Spellings of Filomena

Filomena is not the most common spelling — Philomena is, with 64.2% against Filomena's 35.8%.

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 Filomena is used

Across 1910–2025, Filomena was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 2,857 girls, against 1 in 19,488 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

035 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 2,857
  2. 2New York1 in 6,667
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 8,333
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 11,111
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Filomena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Filomena around the world

Where Filomena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    1957–2024
    #7,524
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1951–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Filomena

People whose public names include Filomena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Filomena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,484
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 448
Best rank ever
#427
1907
Peak year
1923
207 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,550
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Filomena

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

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Names with a curve like Filomena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Filomena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElveraMozelleVincenzaAldaJohnieWinnifredOdellHortenseDorothaAdellSibylRubie

Sibling names for Filomena

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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