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    The surname Fiel

    A German nickname surname, carried by 525 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F400

    Fiel: #41,426 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Fiel #41,426, 525 people Fiel: #41,426 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Fiel #41,426, 525 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fiel is more common than 74.5% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Two possible origins: * Borrowed from German Fiel, a variant of Viel. * Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Fiel, a nickname from fiel (“faithful, true”).

    Fiel is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 525 people named Fiel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 588,087 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 596.

    #41,426
    rank among US surnames
    525
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -11.9%
    change since 2000 (was #35,666)

    Who is named Fiel

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

    62% of people named Fiel identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 62%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fiel

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fiel come from?
    Two possible origins: * Borrowed from German Fiel, a variant of Viel. * Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Fiel, a nickname from fiel (“faithful, true”).
    How common is the surname Fiel?
    525 people in the United States had the surname Fiel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 588,087 Americans. It ranked 41,426th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fiel?
    In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Fiel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Fiel?
    Fiel is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Fiel getting more or less common?
    Less common. 596 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 525 in 2010, down 12%.