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    The surname Filley

    An English nickname surname, carried by 614 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F400

    Filley: #36,426 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Filley #36,426, 614 people Filley: #36,426 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Filley #36,426, 614 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Filley is more common than 77.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English filli (“filly, young female horse”), perhaps a nickname for a temperamental or skittish person.

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 614 people named Filley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 502,843 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 699.

    #36,426
    rank among US surnames
    614
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -12.2%
    change since 2000 (was #31,339)

    Who is named Filley

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

    95% of people named Filley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Filley

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Filley come from?
    From Middle English filli (“filly, young female horse”), perhaps a nickname for a temperamental or skittish person.
    How common is the surname Filley?
    614 people in the United States had the surname Filley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 502,843 Americans. It ranked 36,426th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Filley?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Filley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Filley?
    Filley is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Filley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 699 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 614 in 2010, down 12%.