Names Like Philemon

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Philomena
From the Greek philos, meaning "friend" or philein, meaning "to love" and menos, meaning "strength".
Filemon
A friendly and loving person, A friendly and loving person.
Filimon
This name derives from the Ancient Greek “Philḗmōn (Φιλήμων),” meaning “kindly, affectionate.” Philemon was an early Christian in Asia Minor who was the recipient of a private letter from Paul of Tarsus. This letter is known as Epistle to Philemon in the New Testament. He is known as a saint by several Christian churches, along with his wife, Apphia. Philemon was a wealthy Christian and a minister of the house church that met in his home in Colosse, Phrygia. Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia. The only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter, and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.
Filomena
Lover of mankind, beloved.
Philomene
A person who is loved and nurtured.
Philomenia
Filomeno
This name derives from the Ancient Greek “philouménē (φιλουμένη),” composed of two elements: “phílos (φίλος)” (beloved, dear, loving, friendly) plus “ménos (μένος)” (mind, desire, ardor, wish, courage, spirit, vigor). In turn, the name means “friend of the strength, the spirit, and vigor of friends.” Saint Philomena (291–304) was, as believed by her devotees within the Catholic Church, a young virgin martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in the Catacombs of Priscilla. The name was later confused with another similar name, “Philomela.” The latter, in Greek Filomíla (Φιλομήλα), means “friend of the song.”
Filmon
Philomeana
Philomenah
Filumena
This name derives from the Ancient Greek “philouménē (φιλουμένη),” composed of two elements: “phílos (φίλος)” (beloved, dear, loving, friendly) plus “ménos (μένος)” (mind, desire, ardor, wish, courage, spirit, vigor). In turn, the name means “friend of the strength, the spirit, and vigor of friends.” Saint Philomena (291–304) was, as believed by her devotees within the Catholic Church, a young virgin martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in the Catacombs of Priscilla. The name was later confused with another similar name, “Philomela.” The latter, in Greek Filomíla (Φιλομήλα), means “friend of the song.”
Felomena
Ghulaman
Filimoni
Philemona
Philmone
Philmon
Philemen
Ghilman
Philamena