Comments for the name Philomena

This is the name of Esther Greenwood's benefactoress in "The Bell Jar".

Actually, Philomena comes from the Greek philomênê, which means "loved", it's the past participle of the verb philein, meaning "to love". [noted -ed]

Philomena´s pet forms are Philly, Phil, Minna, Mena, Philona, Phyllis.

Philomena is also the Czech and Slovak form.
Name Day: 11th August (Czech).

St. Philomena was dropped from the Roman Catholic calendar in 1961.

I hate the name. PHIL-O-MENA. Yuck.

One of my teacher's daughters had the name Philomene which is a French version of Philomena. I think it's very unique and I like Philomene more than Philomena.

I really like this name; it's classy, strong, youthful, and just altogether a really lovely name. :)

This name has also been used in The Netherlands, in this spelling (not just Filomena was used here). I should know, since this was the first name of my (Dutch) great-greatgrandmother.

Philomena is quite old-fashioned here, however, so one can consider it a rare name on those born in The Netherlands after 1980.

This is the name of Princess Celestia's pet phoenix from the show, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic".

This is my mothers name. She doesn't like it much, therefor I guess it's put me off it. Thankfully names are not carried on down the way they used to be years ago so I've avoided passing it onto my children! It is normally a nun's name I would have thought!

It reminds me of philharmonics.

Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born 1960 in New York City) is an American actress.