Philoména
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Philoména is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Angola it is the 75th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Filumena, from Ancient Greek Φιλουμένη (Philouménē, literally “beloved”). Name of an alleged early martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in Rome.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 921as Filomena
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.1Kas Filomena
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Philoména itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Filomena in PE Peru, IT Italy, PH Philippines and 2 more and Philomena in NG Nigeria, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinFilumena(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΦιλουμένηPhilouménē“beloved”(measured from records)
From Latin Filumena, from Ancient Greek Φιλουμένη (Philouménē, literally “beloved”). Name of an alleged early martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in Rome.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Philoména counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Philomena | 47 |
| IT Italy | #370 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 26 | Filomena | 130 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Filomena | 37 |
| AO Angola | #75 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Filomena | 32 |
| PE Peru | #421 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Filomena | 38 |
| PT Portugal | #126 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 921 | listed | Filomena | 98 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5,163 | 1 in 3.3K | 4.6K | Philomena | 22 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Philoména mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Filumena, from Ancient Greek Φιλουμένη (Philouménē, literally “beloved”). Name of an alleged early martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in Rome. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 2 other sources.
- Is Philoména a male or female name?
- Philoména is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Philoména have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Philoména in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled philomena.
- Where is Philoména most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Philoména is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Philoména?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,163 people named Philoména, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Philoména compared with other names?
- In Angola, Philoména is the 75th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/philom%C3%A9naThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Philoména” — the 75th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.