Filic
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Filic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: < gr. cptgxooc atent, ascultdtor cu pldcere". Tema fil amic, iubitor" intrd In formatia multor nume calendaristice (Filic, Flip etc., sau Teofil, Pamfil etc.), si a servit Ia formarea unor nume. 1. Filic is also written Филић in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 11Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 233K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Filic in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Filić in HR Croatia, RS Serbia.
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)< gr. cptgxooc atent, ascultdtor cu pldcere". Tema fil amic, iubitor" intrd In formatia multor nume calendaristice (Filic, Flip etc., sau Teofil, Pamfil etc.), si a servit Ia formarea unor nume. 1. FIIM (I Bot 6) ; -ea (16 B III 5 ; Pas) ; -eni (Giur 43 ; 17 B I 31, 360) ; -esti s ; -eanca t ; -ufd pren. ; Tatomir al Filei (AO XVII 293). 2. Fili (Ard II 37) ; -oara, -ul ss; -u(d, act. ; Filiias, D-tru, stolnic, 1649 (BCI XI 62) ; -of, D. (Mano 20) ; Filiesanul = Filisanul fam. olt. de la Filiasi" (Gras 41) 3. Cu hi < fi, ca Hilip < Filip : Hilie b. (D Cpol) ; Rohota (RI XXXI 192); Hilina (Isp 1112 si V2; C Bog ; Sur XXIV) ; Hilian (Isp ; Hilias Gh. (BCI VII 53) ; Hilifa, Hiliufi ss.; Hiliufd(BIr I). 4. Cuhi>si : (Sur XIV). 5. -ca, -cu, -cea : Filca, Crasovean, ban. (AO III 481 ; Filco (Sd XV 61) ; Filcu (Sd XVI si XXII 208) ; Filce, V., mold. (Bal IV); -a, munt. (P Bor 26 ; AO X 128); -a diac (Cat ; Rep D 122). 6. Cu hi < fi §i suf. -ce, -cea : Hilce (16 A III 165) ; -a (Ur XXII 72 ; Sd XVI) ; Hilcesti, 1469 (T-Rom 270). 7. Cu afer. prob. : Liul, P., olt. (Sur VI) < * Hiliu. 8. Forma greacd : Filos diac, 1392 (T-Rom 59) ; - logofdt (Flor 15), grec origine.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where the surname Filic is found
(measured from records)Filic 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Filić | 17 |
| HR Croatia | 587 | 1 in 7.2K | 587 | Filić | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Filic | 2 |
| US United States | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | Filic | 9 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Filic | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Filic mean?
- Recorded meaning: < gr. cptgxooc atent, ascultdtor cu pldcere". Tema fil amic, iubitor" intrd In formatia multor nume calendaristice (Filic, Flip etc., sau Teofil, Pamfil etc.), si a servit Ia formarea unor nume. 1.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Filic?
- Mondonomo estimates about 596 people named Filic in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filić. After it come Croatia, Switzerland, United States and Kosovo; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Filic most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Filic is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 7.2 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Filic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 587 people named Filic in 2021, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
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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, “Filic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.