Family name origins & meanings
- English : from a Norman personal name, Filimor, composed of the Germanic elements filu ‘very’ + māri, mēri ‘famous’.
- The home of the main English branch of the Fillmore family in Tudor times was East Sutton, Kent, but the immigrant John Fillmore (1678–c.1710) was a mariner who came from Manchester, England, to Ipswich,MA, in about 1700. His son, also called John Fillmore (1702–77), had seven sons and three daughters. One of these sons, Nathaniel, was the father of President Millard Fillmore (1800–74).