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The FILES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,668 8305 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 947 5710 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +2721 -2595 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 144 10276 0.001 9
United Kingdom 116 22485 0 3
Top States for FILES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 446 1776 0.010 100
Texas 301 7094 0.001 14
California 281 10362 0.001 8
Arkansas 184 2165 0.007 69
Florida 168 12025 0.001 11
Top States for FILES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 134 1919 0.011 105
Alabama 446 1776 0.010 100
Arkansas 184 2165 0.007 69
Mississippi 160 2538 0.006 56
West Virginia 95 2629 0.005 53

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FILES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FILES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FILES in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FILES by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FILES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FILES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FILES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FILES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 666 18.16
White (Hispanic) 60 1.64
Mixed Race 44 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.79
Asian/Pacific 6 0.16
White (Caucasian) 2,863 78.05

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FILES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FILES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FILES.

Similar names to FILES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FILES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FILES

The following words are slight variants of FILES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.