Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filemon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 514
- 514 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,219 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Filemon’s family of names
In Polish usage, Filemon has a conventional equivalent in the English form Philemon. In Polish usage, Filemon has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form FILEMOM. In Polish usage, Filemon has a conventional equivalent in the Belarusian form Пілімон.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Filemon has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filemon
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