Philamena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Philamena has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 10 recorded.
Babies named Philamena, 1928
1 in 226,000
Philamena over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Philamena?
Philamena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1928
- 1 in 226,000
- 10 of 2,260,857 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1928
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 156,712 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Philamena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 156,712 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Philamena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Philamenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Philamena was born before 1920 — so the typical Philamena is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 56.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Philamena 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1928 (10)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Philamena
Philamena is not the most common spelling — Philomena is, with 94.0% against Philamena's 0.84%.
Philamena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Philamena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Philamena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.