Given name
Filemón
“fond of”
Filemón is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Filemón goes back to Ancient Greek Φιλήμων, meaning “fond of.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Filemón’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Filemón has a conventional equivalent in the English form Philemon.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filemón
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