File Surname
Approximately 6,816 people bear this surname
File Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,180 | 1:166,266 | 16,872 |
| Ethiopia | 1,449 | 1:67,320 | 6,648 |
| Somalia | 833 | 1:16,149 | 1,019 |
| Hungary | 539 | 1:18,212 | 2,064 |
| South Africa | 247 | 1:219,343 | 23,014 |
| England | 208 | 1:267,875 | 21,171 |
| Austria | 155 | 1:54,938 | 8,627 |
| Canada | 148 | 1:248,957 | 23,668 |
| Albania | 145 | 1:20,097 | 3,467 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| New Zealand | 112 | 1:40,431 | 6,796 |
| Suriname | 102 | 1:5,418 | 1,247 |
| Netherlands | 85 | 1:198,673 | 27,603 |
| Pakistan | 58 | 1:3,080,067 | 24,706 |
| Australia | 52 | 1:519,148 | 39,018 |
| Brazil | 47 | 1:4,554,773 | 120,089 |
| Serbia | 34 | 1:210,146 | 12,577 |
| Romania | 33 | 1:608,420 | 43,703 |
| Indonesia | 30 | 1:4,408,306 | 217,989 |
| Italy | 26 | 1:2,352,180 | 93,058 |
| Afghanistan | 25 | 1:1,286,127 | 11,103 |
| Tanzania | 15 | 1:3,529,441 | 50,903 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| Slovenia | 12 | 1:207,306 | 15,422 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 1:167,731 | 8,683 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| Cook Islands | 8 | 1:2,272 | 577 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Iran | 3 | 1:25,594,175 | 224,183 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Liechtenstein | 2 | 1:19,189 | 1,439 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 227 | 1:107,380 | 10,631 |
| Jersey | 2 | 1:25,941 | 3,069 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 753 | 1:66,691 | 7,246 |
The alternate forms: Filé (38) & Filè (2) are calculated separately.
File (3,242) may also be a first name.
File Demographics
Average Male File Height
176.91 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
File Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name File Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name File is most common in The United States. It can appear in the variant forms: Filé or Filè. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name File? popularity and diffusion
The last name File is the 72,342nd most frequent last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 1,069,182 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 40 percent of File are found; 34 percent are found in East Africa and 31 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 125,865th most commonly occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 3,242 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is held by 2,180 people, or 1 in 166,266. In The United States File is most common in: Illinois, where 16 percent reside, North Carolina, where 7 percent reside and New York, where 6 percent reside. Other than The United States File occurs in 72 countries. It is also common in Ethiopia, where 21 percent reside and Somalia, where 12 percent reside.
File Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of File has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the File last name increased 290 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it decreased 8 percent between 1881 and 2014.
File Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the File surname is chiefly Muslim (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the File surname are 24.43% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 71.2% registered to vote for the party.
The amount File earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 56.52% less than the national average, earning R 103,332 per year; in United States they earn 5.44% more than the national average, earning $45,496 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.4% more than the national average, earning $53,358 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to File
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