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The IFILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 817 27721 0 3
United States (1880 census) 10 88797 0 0
Change since 1880 +807 +61076 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 267151 0 0
United Kingdom 199 16529 0 4
Top States for IFILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 344 5888 0.002 18
Florida 99 17832 0.001 6
Maryland 55 10323 0.001 10
New Jersey 53 19092 0.001 6
Georgia 37 14491 0.000 5
Top States for IFILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 20 2943 0.003 35
New York 344 5888 0.002 18
Maryland 55 10323 0.001 10
Connecticut 28 17617 0.001 8
New Jersey 53 19092 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of IFILL

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of IFILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 648 79.31
White (Caucasian) 71 8.69
Mixed Race 46 5.63
White (Hispanic) 35 4.28
Asian/Pacific 17 2.08
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of IFILL in historical publications

IFILL. Perhaps a corruption of I Held,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to IFILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IFILL.

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 IFILL

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