Meaning not yet researched.
Philomena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #355 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #355 in 1915; #1,920 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Philomena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,920 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #355.
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Philomena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 girls in 2025. Peak: #355 in 1915 · most girls in one year: 308 (1922).
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Philomena, making it the 1,920th most common girls’ name of the year, down 101 places from #1,819 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 111 girls named Philomena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #355, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 308, in 1922. For comparison, it was #2,372 in 2015 and #1,209 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Philomena in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 9,951 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,711 babies named Philomena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 902 US girls were named Philomena; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,914 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Philomena ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #946 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Filomena (5,550 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Philamena and Philomina are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Menaalmena.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Philamena (89), Philomina (67).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 10 | #946 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,015 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,355 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #2,007 | #2,803 |
| New York | 5 | #2,341 | — |
| California | 6 | #3,021 | #2,445 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,006 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,909 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,508 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,565 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,507 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,621 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,234 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,410 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,373 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,096 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,299 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,350 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,270 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,445 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,293 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,282 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,593 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,547 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,191 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,866 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,286 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,101 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,928 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,773 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,795 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,829 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,719 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,881 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,074 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,922 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,957 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1953 | 64 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1947 | 57 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1944 | 48 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1942 | 67 | #956 | — | — |
| 1941 | 71 | #867 | — | — |
| 1940 | 65 | #891 | — | — |
| 1939 | 63 | #887 | — | — |
| 1938 | 81 | #783 | — | — |
| 1937 | 80 | #765 | — | — |
| 1936 | 76 | #778 | — | — |
| 1935 | 79 | #764 | — | — |
| 1934 | 110 | #640 | — | — |
| 1933 | 114 | #609 | — | — |
| 1932 | 133 | #568 | — | — |
| 1931 | 156 | #529 | — | — |
| 1930 | 178 | #502 | — | — |
| 1929 | 226 | #439 | — | — |
| 1928 | 225 | #460 | — | — |
| 1927 | 267 | #421 | — | — |
| 1926 | 261 | #427 | — | — |
| 1925 | 270 | #420 | — | — |
| 1924 | 291 | #403 | — | — |
| 1923 | 299 | #385 | — | — |
| 1922 | 308 | #371 | — | — |
| 1921 | 294 | #393 | — | — |
| 1920 | 270 | #404 | — | — |
| 1919 | 244 | #416 | — | — |
| 1918 | 265 | #402 | — | — |
| 1917 | 290 | #371 | — | — |
| 1916 | 296 | #358 | — | — |
| 1915 | 284 | #355 | — | — |
| 1914 | 207 | #368 | — | — |
| 1913 | 156 | #388 | — | — |
| 1912 | 139 | #393 | — | — |
| 1911 | 109 | #389 | — | — |
| 1910 | 81 | #444 | — | — |
| 1909 | 72 | #438 | — | — |
| 1908 | 96 | #369 | — | — |
| 1907 | 75 | #410 | — | — |
| 1906 | 58 | #450 | — | — |
| 1905 | 73 | #396 | — | — |
| 1904 | 48 | #478 | — | — |
| 1903 | 66 | #392 | — | — |
| 1902 | 47 | #462 | — | — |
| 1901 | 40 | #480 | — | — |
| 1900 | 38 | #566 | — | — |
| 1899 | 47 | #429 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #569 | — | — |
| 1897 | 36 | #486 | — | — |
| 1896 | 34 | #511 | — | — |
| 1895 | 32 | #528 | — | — |
| 1894 | 25 | #593 | — | — |
| 1893 | 24 | #591 | — | — |
| 1892 | 28 | #525 | — | — |
| 1891 | 16 | #690 | — | — |
| 1890 | 21 | #577 | — | — |
| 1889 | 22 | #553 | — | — |
| 1888 | 24 | #523 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #840 | — | — |
| 1886 | 15 | #599 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #603 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #720 | — | — |
| 1883 | 15 | #511 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #628 | — | — |
| 1881 | 11 | #532 | — | — |
| 1880 | 10 | #572 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).