Filomena
Filomena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. Its best rank was 427th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1923207 births
- Best rank
- #427in 1907
- Since 1885
- 5,518people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,518 girls have been named Filomena in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 207 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Filomena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 127 | |
| 1900s | 433 | |
| 1910s | 1,231 | |
| 1920s | 1,577 | |
| 1930s | 531 | |
| 1940s | 222 | |
| 1950s | 224 | |
| 1960s | 305 | |
| 1970s | 240 | |
| 1980s | 112 | |
| 1990s | 58 | |
| 2000s | 87 | |
| 2010s | 188 | |
| 2020s | 155 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Filomena was the 480th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Filomena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Opalpeak 1918
- Mildredpeak 1920
- Rubyepeak 1919
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Lucillepeak 1920
- Beatricepeak 1921
- Maurinepeak 1917
- Garnetpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.