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    The surname Fails

    A surname, carried by 2,078 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F420

    Fails: #14,382 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fails #14,382, 2,078 people Fails: #14,382 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fails #14,382, 2,078 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fails is more common than 91.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,078 people named Fails in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,578 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,657.

    #14,382
    rank among US surnames
    2,078
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +25.4%
    change since 2000 (was #16,062)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,374Sclafani2,080148,435
    #14,378Litwin2,079148,507
    #14,382Fails2,078148,578

    Who is named Fails

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

    56% of people named Fails identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 39%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fails

    Fails has the Soundex code F420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Fails?
    2,078 people in the United States had the surname Fails in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,578 Americans. It ranked 14,382nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fails?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Fails identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Fails getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,078 in 2010, up 25%.