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    The surname File

    A surname, carried by 1,688 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F400

    File: #16,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer File #16,881, 1,688 people File: #16,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez File #16,881, 1,688 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). File is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,688 people named File in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,906 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,719.

    #16,881
    rank among US surnames
    1,688
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #15,611)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,876Melnik1,689182,798
    #16,881Locher1,688182,906
    #16,887Howery1,687183,015

    Who is named File

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

    91% of people named File identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like File

    File 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 File?
    1,688 people in the United States had the surname File in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,906 Americans. It ranked 16,881st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname File?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named File identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname File getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,719 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,688 in 2010, down 1.8%.