Filomena
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Filomena is a 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. In Spanish, recorded as a female given name, equivalent to English Philomena.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 921(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.4K
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 Filomena 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)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 921 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 named Philomena, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philomena
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Filomena is read(measured from records)
Filomena is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish55%
a female given name, equivalent to English Philomena
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese17%
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philomena
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
A female given name from the Romance languages Synonym of Philomena.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filomena 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 |
| BR Brazil | #926 | 13,036 | 1 in 16K | 19K | Filomena | 86 |
| PT Portugal | #126 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 921 | listed | Filomena | 98 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5,163as Philomena | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Filomena is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do nome próprio Filomena
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Fedele all’amore
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Filomena de Romab. 291GRChristian saint, martyr and wonderworker
- Princess Maria Annunziata of Bourbon-Two Siciliesb. 1843ITnot in their usual nameItalian princess (1843-1871)
- Princess Alice of Parmab. 1849ITnot in their usual namePrincess of Bourbon-Parma (1849-1935)
- Mercedes of Orléansb. 1860ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain
- Filomena Nittib. 1909ITItalian pharmacologist (1909-1994)
- Alba Arnovab. 1930ARnot in their usual nameBallet dancer and actor (1930-2018)
- Luz Salgadob. 1949PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Filomena Tassib. 1962CACanadian politician and lawyer
- Filomena Morettib. 1973ITItalian musician
- Filomena Cautelab. 1984PTPortuguese television presenter and actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,436 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,412 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 76 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 72 | #1,412 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 37 | #13,994 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 26 | #489 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Filomena come from?
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philomena Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Filomena mean?
- In Spanish, a female given name, equivalent to English Philomena
- Is Filomena a male or female name?
- Filomena 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.
- What are other forms of the name Filomena?
- In the etymology graph, Philomena, Philomène and Filimena are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Filomena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Philomena in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Filomena?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 13,036 people named Filomena in 2022, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Filomena compared with other names?
- In Angola, Filomena 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/filomenaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Filomena” — the 75th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.