Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Filimon isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filimon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 244
- 244 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1935
- 11 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 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1935. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 770 as a first name in 2020; 350 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Filimon’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Filimon has a conventional equivalent in the German form Philemon. In Ukrainian usage, Filimon is a transliteration of Филимон. In Greek usage, Filimon as a surname is a transliteration of Φιλίμον.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Filimon has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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