Filimon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: de philemon, affectueux
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/filimon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filimon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 67K
- USUnited States1 in 432K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, 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 ፊልሞን in ET Ethiopia.
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)
de philemon, affectueux. Fêtes : 4 (17) janvier, 19 février (3 / 4 mars), 29 avril (12 mai), 22 novembre (5 décembre), 14 (27) décembre. Philémon est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 22 novembre, 8 mars.
Sources 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filimon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | ፊልሞን | 18 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Filimon | 10 |
| US United States | — | 770 | 1 in 432K | 767 | Filimon | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Filimon | 7 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Filimon | 22 |
| NI Nicaragua | #513 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Filimon | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 184 | 1 in 55K | 184 | Filimon | 4 |
| MD Moldova | — | 89 | 1 in 38K | 89 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Filimon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "to love."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Philemon IIIb. 250not in their usual nameancient Greek comic poet lived between 3rd and 2nd century B.C
- Philemonb. 360ITnot in their usual name4th-century BC Athenian poet of New Comedy
- Filimon Kuznetsovb. 1939EEEstonian-Russian municipal politician (born 1939)
- Filimon Abrahamb. 1992ERGerman long-distance runner (born 1992)
- Filimon Zerabrukb. 2001ETEthiopian sport cyclist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 350 | #61,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 270 | #68,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 266 | #73,005 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,576 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What are other forms of the name Filimon?
- In the etymology graph, Philemon is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Filimon?
- A machine transcription gives /filimon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Filimon a male or female name?
- Filimon is a male 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 does the name Filimon mean?
- Recorded meaning: de philemon, affectueux.
- In which country does Filimon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Filimon in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ፊልሞን.
- How common is the name Filimon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 770 people named Filimon in 2020, about 1 in 432 thousand residents.
- How common is Filimon compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Filimon is the 513th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Filimon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filimonThe 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, “Filimon” — the 513th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.