Filas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/fʲləz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 714K
- ARArgentina1 in 758K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,181 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Filas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,181 | 1 in 32K | 599 | Filas | 43 |
| US United States | 298 | 1 in 1.1M | 317 | Filas | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 60 | 1 in 758K | 60 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Filas | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 15 | 1 in 714K | 15 | Filas | 5 |
1,181 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Filas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, second-person singular past historic of filer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, passive infinitive of fila
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, thermos, flask
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)- Ryszard Filasb. 1949PLPolish sociologist
- Juraj Filasb. 1955SKSlovak composer (1955–2021)
- Violetta FilasPLresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 599 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 599 | #5,274 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 582 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 582 | #5,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 317 | #67,188 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 298 | #66,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 298 | #62,775 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 72 | #80,790 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 60 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15 | #63,305 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 15 | #16,826 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Filas?
- A machine transcription gives /fʲləz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Filas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Filas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filas.
- Where is Filas most common?
- Filas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Filas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,181 people named Filas in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Filas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filasThe 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, “Filas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.