Filon

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Filon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Philo.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 58Kas Філон(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 427Kas Филон
  • PLPoland1 in 182K

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 Filon 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈750 named Філон, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FilonLatin(measured from records)
ФілонCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Филон in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan and Філон in UA Ukraine.

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 male given name, equivalent to English Philo

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Filon 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.

Where Filon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈750 est.≈1 in 58K—Філон26
BY Belarus≈370 est.≈1 in 25K—Филон12
RU Russia≈330 est.≈1 in 427KlistedФилон97
TW Taiwan≈230 est.≈1 in 102K—Филон1
PL Poland2101 in 182K109Filon22
NL Netherlands681 in 254K68—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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Filon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Filón

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States

    Also written Filón

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Filón

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Filon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, lode, seam, vein

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Del gr. Φίλων, de φίλος 'amigo' + terminación denominativa; nombre de un filósofo judío alejandrino.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Russian, de philon, aimé. Fête : 24 janvier (6 février). Philon est son équivalent français. Fête : 25 avril.

    as a nameRussian Names

  • In Russian, "dear being."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Esperanto, accusative singular of filo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

17501800185019001950Charles François Filon, b. 1757Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, b. 1800Augustin Filon, b. 1841Mary Summer, b. 1842Louis Napoleon George Filon, b. 1875Giacomo Filon, b. 1900S. P. L. Filon, b. 1905

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 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Filon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026109—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—109#27,531
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026101—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—101#29,671
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200768#25,215

Reference works 6

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 does the name Filon mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Philo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Filon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 752 people named Філон in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Filon most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Filon is densest in Poland — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Filon?
In Poland, the national register counted 210 people named Filon in 2026, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.

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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, “Filon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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