How common is the surname Filer?

2,436 people in the United States had the surname Filer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,743 Americans. It ranked 12,682nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Filer getting more or less common?

More common. 2,414 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,436 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Filer

An occupational surname, carried by 2,436 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Filer is more common than 92.2% of them.

Origin

Uncertain. Possibly an occupational surname from filer (one who files). The city in Idaho was named after Walter G. Filer.

Filer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,436 people named Filer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 126,743 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,414.

#12,682

rank among US surnames

2,436

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #11,876)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,676	Villasana	2,438	126,639
#12,680	Creason	2,437	126,691
#12,682	Filer	2,436	126,743
#12,683	Backstrom	2,435	126,795
#12,689	Deroche	2,434	126,847

Who is named Filer

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

80% of people named Filer identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Filer

Filer has the Soundex code F460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F460.

Questions

Where does the surname Filer come from?: Uncertain. Possibly an occupational surname from filer (one who files). The city in Idaho was named after Walter G. Filer.
How common is the surname Filer?: 2,436 people in the United States had the surname Filer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,743 Americans. It ranked 12,682nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Filer?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Filer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Filer?: Filer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Filer getting more or less common?: More common. 2,414 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,436 in 2010, up 0.9%.