Philemon
Recorded for boysGen X2025 rank
#8,079
up +2,578 places
2025 births
10
up +3 births
All-time births
925
1% of them in 2025
More common than
88%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2017
- 24 births
- Best rank
- #2,199
- in 1969
- First recorded
- 1916
- #2,882 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1980
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 98 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201724#4,304Peak
- 202121#4,737
- 198017#2,809
- 200517#4,977
- 196916#2,199
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2,199 in 1969 · peak births 24 in 2017
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Philemon has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.