Behind the Name: Comments for the name Filomena

Comments for FILOMENA:

It's a quite common name in south Italy.

-- arthemisia 10/28/2006

LOVE IT. It's too awesome for words!

-- uniqeable-girl 3/25/2007

I have a great-great-great-grandmother, and a great-great grandmother, from two separate sides of the family (meaning, they weren't named after each other) with this name, if that means anything. (Maybe, all this means is that this name was popular in the Philippines in the 1800's.)

-- moocow 5/21/2007

Filomena is one of the narrators in Boccaccio's Decameron.

-- cateyedsnake 8/25/2007

Filomena is also the Dutch form of Philomena. [noted -ed]

-- Lucille 2/16/2008

The Italian pronunciation is fee-law-ME-nah. [noted -ed]

-- presentperfect 9/12/2011

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