Filmore Family Crest & Name History

Filmore belongs to the Fillmore family of names, which has English roots. At root, the name means “A descendant of Filimar or Filomor (very famous)”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Filmore ranked 34,185 in the 2010 US Census, with 664 people answering to the name.
• Filmore drops the “l” of Fillmore, a shortening that clerks often made.

Filmore coat of arms

Arms linked to Fillmore and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Filmore report, with a museum-style coat of arms.