Philomena
Philomena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 110 births. Its best rank was 355th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1100.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1922308 births
- Best rank
- #355in 1915
- Since 1880
- 9,847people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,847 girls have been named Philomena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 308 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 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Philomena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 140 | |
| 1890s | 296 | |
| 1900s | 613 | |
| 1910s | 2,071 | |
| 1920s | 2,711 | |
| 1930s | 1,070 | |
| 1940s | 547 | |
| 1950s | 534 | |
| 1960s | 239 | |
| 1970s | 115 | |
| 1980s | 72 | |
| 1990s | 121 | |
| 2000s | 218 | |
| 2010s | 665 | |
| 2020s | 435 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Philomena was the 371st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Philomena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cleopeak 1920
- Helenpeak 1918
- Ionapeak 1918
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Odessapeak 1920
- Alinepeak 1920
- Adellpeak 1921
- Angelinepeak 1921
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.