In 2025, 31 US girls were named Filomena, making it the 4,485th most common girls’ name of the year, up 112 places from #4,597 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 30 girls named Filomena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #427, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 207, in 1923. For comparison, it was #5,893 in 2015 and #2,281 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Filomena in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 5,550 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,577 babies named Filomena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 283 US girls were named Filomena; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Philomena (9,951 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Filamena, Filomina and Felomina are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.