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    The surname Fail

    A surname, carried by 754 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fail is more common than 81% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Scottish and Irish surname, shortened from McPhail. * As a Manx surname, variant of Fayle. * As a south German surname, from the adjective feil (“for sale”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 754 people named Fail in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 409,477 Americans. That is down 36% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,185.

    #30,863
    rank among US surnames
    754
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -36.4%
    change since 2000 (was #20,744)

    Who is named Fail

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    82% of people named Fail identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fail

    Fail has the Soundex code F400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F400.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fail come from?
    * As a Scottish and Irish surname, shortened from McPhail. * As a Manx surname, variant of Fayle. * As a south German surname, from the adjective feil (“for sale”).
    How common is the surname Fail?
    754 people in the United States had the surname Fail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 409,477 Americans. It ranked 30,863rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fail?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Fail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Fail getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,185 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 754 in 2010, down 36%.