MEANING & HISTORY
What does Rimmon mean?
The historical name dictionaries give Rimmon a Hebrew pomegranate account and document a biblical personal name. Brown–Driver–Briggs separately treats the same-spelled Syrian deity, whose thunder or roar etymology it calls doubtful.
These homographs should not be flattened into a single name that necessarily means both fruit and thunder.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Rimmon in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
RIMMONCSV record 14,328 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Rimmon in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Rimmon
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Ramon♂Ramón/Raymond family: counsel + protection
- Ramón♂Counsel and protection
- Simon♂Biblical name related to Simeon; “he has heard”
- Alamon♂Cebuano knowledge-root surname used as a given name
- Filemon♂Philemon-name family: affectionate
- Filemón♂Affectionate or loving, through Greek Philemon
- Riban·As a historical English word: ribbon
- Rico♂Short form of Ricardo, Enrico and related names
What rhymes with Rimmon?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Rimmon further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Brown–Driver–Briggs and Strong: Rimmon, Hebrew 7417, reproduced by Bible Hub (opens in a new tab)
Attributed lexicon distinguishes deity, personal name and place-name; deity etymology explicitly doubtful. Automatically generated topical sermon material excluded.
- Historical proper-name dictionaries reproduced by Forebears: Rimmon (opens in a new tab)
Attributed Farrar (1855), Jackson (1909) and Loughead (1934) entries supply the pomegranate name account and distinct historical glosses.