Film
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2010
Film is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Belarus it is the 89th most common given name. Recorded meaning: film, movie.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.8Kas V.(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12Kas V.
- RURussia≈1 in 16Kas В.
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Film itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 named V., est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est., as V.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled V. in IN India, DE Germany, BY Belarus and 1 more, Fin in US United States and В. in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)film, movie
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Film counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 1 | V. | 144 |
| RU Russia | #473 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | В. | 92 |
| DE Germany | #733 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | V. | 105 |
| BE Belgium | #952 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 26 | V. | 31 |
| US United States | — | 3,819as Phu | 1 in 87K | 3.4K | Fin | 328 |
| BY Belarus | #89 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | V. | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 106 | #153,769 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Film mean?
- Recorded meaning: film, movie
- In which country does Film have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named V. in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Film?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,819 people named Phu in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Film compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Film is the 89th most common given name of 7,499 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filmThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Film” — the 89th most common given name in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.