Fíla
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fíla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: line, row, series.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 15K
- CZCzechia1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fila in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, US United States and 2 more.
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)
line, row, series
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fíla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fila | 4 |
| PL Poland | 3,379 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | Fila | 73 |
| BR Brazil | 750 | 1 in 282K | 750 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 562 | 1 in 19K | 562 | Fila | 39 |
| US United States | 516 | 1 in 645K | 544 | Fila | 52 |
| SK Slovakia | 119 | 1 in 46K | 119 | Fila | 16 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 24 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fíla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, genitive plural indefinite of fíl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivan Fílab. 1956CZCzech film director and scriptwriter
- Petr Fílab. 1976CZCzech association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 241 | #6,951 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 238 | #5,128 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Fíla mean, and where does it come from?
- line, row, series Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Fíla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Fíla in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fila.
- Where is Fíla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fíla is densest in Poland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fíla?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,379 people named Fíla in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fíla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%ADlaThe 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, “Fíla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.