Philoméne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek origin; from Philomene/Philomene, related to philos 'loving' and meno 'to remain' (traditional etymology uncertain)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Philoméne is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- BIBurundi≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 99K
- FRFrance≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Philomène in FR France, CM Cameroon, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 more and Philomene in US United States, 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)Greek origin; from Philomene/Philomene, related to philos 'loving' and meno 'to remain' (traditional etymology uncertain).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Philoméne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #415 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Philomène | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 2 | Philomène | 5 |
| US United States | — | 656 | 1 in 507K | 652 | Philomene | 115 |
| FR France | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 12K | Philomène | 122 |
| BI Burundi | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 417 | 1 in 41K | 356 | Philomene | 10 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Philomène | 6 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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) | — | 15 | #17,574 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Philoméne mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek origin; from Philomene/Philomene, related to philos 'loving' and meno 'to remain' (traditional etymology uncertain). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Philoméne a male or female name?
- Philoméne 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 Philoméne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Philoméne in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled philomène.
- How common is the name Philoméne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 656 people named Philoméne in 2020, about 1 in 507 thousand residents.
- How common is Philoméne compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Philoméne is the 415th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Philoméne?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/philom%C3%A9neThe 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, “Philoméne” — the 415th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.