Filomena
From Greek, it carries the sense "friend of strength". Fewer than a thousand Polish women bear it, so most people here will likely never meet one, though it has been given a little more often in recent years.
Filomena Pronunciation
Filomena is pronounced fee-lo-ME-nah (/filɔˈmɛna/).
What Filomena means
Where Filomena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Filomena comes from Greek. The name joins philos, meaning friend or loving, to menos, meaning strength or force. Read together, those two pieces give what Polish records still list as friend of strength, miłująca siłę. The origin is old and traceable, not a folk guess pinned on later.
Unlike many names on a Polish class register, Filomena arrives with no ready diminutive to shorten it. There is no everyday nickname to reach for. A girl called Filomena stays Filomena on the form at the urząd and Filomena at her imieniny, the full four syllables intact.
That second root, menos, sat behind courage in early Greek poetry, naming the drive that pushed a person forward in a fight or a task. So the name does not claim its bearer is strength itself. It sets her beside strength, as its friend and companion. The whole account holds to those two Greek words: philos, the friend, and menos, the force it stands with.
When Filomena celebrates name day
Filomena appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Filomena
1 in 27359 women in Poland is named Filomena. 824 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1038 among female names.
Filomena's popularity over time
9 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #733 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018.
Where Filomena is most popular
Filomena is most popular in Masovian, 150% above the national average (9 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+88%) and Lesser Poland (+73%). It is least common in Silesian and Greater Poland, 14% and 9% below average respectively.
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Masovian9 girls born+150%
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Lower Silesian3 girls born+88%
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Lesser Poland4 girls born+73%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+33%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−9%
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Silesian2 girls born−14%
Filomena as a middle name
Filomena is a first name for 824 women in Poland and a middle name for another 733, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 275th, between Amalia (743) and Petronela (721).
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#273 Bernardyna744
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#274 Amalia743
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#275 Filomena733
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#276 Petronela721
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#277 Maya702