How common is the surname Filkins?

1,787 people in the United States had the surname Filkins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,773 Americans. It ranked 16,171st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Filkins getting more or less common?

More common. 1,716 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,787 in 2010, up 4.1%.

Is Filkins also a first name?

Yes. Filkins is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Filkins

A patronymic surname, carried by 1,787 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Filkins is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

From Filkin (“a medieval diminutive of Philip”) + -s (“genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix”).

Filkins is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,787 people named Filkins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,773 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,716.

#16,171

rank among US surnames

1,787

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,640)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,166	Hayek	1,788	172,676
#16,171	Macario	1,787	172,773
#16,179	Rickards	1,786	172,870

Who is named Filkins

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

93% of people named Filkins identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as two or more races and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Two or more races 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

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 Filkins

Filson

Filkins has the Soundex code F425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F425.

Questions

Where does the surname Filkins come from?: From Filkin (“a medieval diminutive of Philip”) + -s (“genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix”).
How common is the surname Filkins?: 1,787 people in the United States had the surname Filkins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,773 Americans. It ranked 16,171st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Filkins?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Filkins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Filkins?: Filkins is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Filkins getting more or less common?: More common. 1,716 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,787 in 2010, up 4.1%.
Is Filkins also a first name?: Yes. Filkins is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.