The FILMORE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	742	29873	0	3
United States (1880 census)	419	11081	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+323	-18792	+N/A	-5
Other Countries
Australia	11	80587	0	1
United Kingdom	73	25107	0	2

Top States for FILMORE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	127	14997	0.001	8
Pennsylvania	76	20373	0.001	6
Alabama	64	6828	0.001	14
Georgia	51	11961	0.001	6
North Carolina	43	13414	0.001	5
Top States for FILMORE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	64	6828	0.001	14
Florida	127	14997	0.001	8
South Carolina	28	12087	0.001	7
Delaware	5	24604	0.001	6
Georgia	51	11961	0.001	6

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of FILMORE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FILMORE surname.

Ethnic distribution of FILMORE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	494	66.58
White (Caucasian)	218	29.38
Mixed Race	16	2.16
White (Hispanic)	7	0.94
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

FILMORE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FILMORE in historical publications

This name, in all probability, arose from a residence near a lake or a fertile piece of ground; Fille, Sax., denoting fullness or plenteousness, and mere, a lake or moist piece of ground. The name has been spelled at different times Fylmere, Filmour, and Filmore. Several other derivations may be found for the etymology of this name. From Filea, Celtic and Gaelic, a bard, a historian, and mor, great, that is, the famous bard. The Films, among the Gauls, or Celts, were held in great esteem, and their office was honorable. They turned the tenets of religion into verse, and animated the troops before and during an engagement with martial odes, and celebrated the valorous deeds of the chieftains and princes who entertained them.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

FILMORE. An old German personal name (Filimer) signifying " full -famous." Ferguson.

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 FILMORE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FILMORE.

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.