Entry № 3336 · Italian origin

Filomena Filomena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fee-loh-MEH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Lover of strength"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "lover of strength".

Filomena is the Italian form of Philomena — from the Greek philos (love) and menos (strength). Saint Philomena was a 4th-century Christian martyr; her cult was popular in 19th-century Catholicism.

Filomena is widely used in Italy and Portugal.

Lover of strength. The Italian saint.

The name in its native script.

Filomena
Transliteration
Filomena
Pronunciation
/ ˌfiː.loʊˈmeɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Filomena stands.

Filomena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Filomenas before her.

Real people
Saint Philomena
4th-century Christian martyr.
In fiction
Filomena
Heroine of Philomena.
2013 film

Names connected to Filomena.

The number behind Filomena.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Filomena reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.