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    The surname Faile

    A surname, carried by 1,319 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). Faile is more common than 87.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,319 people named Faile in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,307.

    #20,201
    rank among US surnames
    1,319
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #19,208)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #20,192Ruppe1,320233,898
    #20,201Redington1,319234,075

    Who is named Faile

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

    95% of people named Faile identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Faile

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Faile?
    1,319 people in the United States had the surname Faile in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Faile?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Faile identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Faile getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,307 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, up 0.9%.