Filin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: rope, cord
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/fʲɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 11Kas Филин(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 36Kas Філін
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 91Kas Филин
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 Filin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Филин, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Филин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more and Філін in UA Ukraine.
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)rope, cord
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Filin is read
(measured from records)Filin is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Ukrainian29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Filin in Ukrainian.
- Russian29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Filin in Russian.
- French25%
rope, cord
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.7%
A genre that emerged in late 1940s in La Habana, influenced by the melodic and expressive style of vocal jazz.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Filin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Филин | 145 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Філін | 26 |
| FR France | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 192K | 88 | — | 2 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 359 | Филин | 30 |
| BY Belarus | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Филин | 14 |
| PL Poland | 102 | 1 in 375K | 77 | Filin | 13 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 62 | Филин | 4 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Filin 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 Azerbaijani, definite genitive singular of fil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of filar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, filer
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Vasily Filinb. 1901UASoviet military aviator
- Aleksandr Filinb. 1903RUSoviet Major General (1903–1942)
- Fedot Filinb. 1908RUSoviet linguist
- Leonid Filinb. 1915UASoviet soldier (1915–1975)
- Ivan Filinb. 1926RUSoviet marathon runner
- Nikolai Filinb. 1962RURussian naval officer
- Ihar Filinb. 1963BYBelarusian ice hockey player (born 1963)
- Sergei Filinb. 1970RUballet dancer
- Vladislav Filinb. 1995RUice hockey player (1995-)
- Oleksandr Filinb. 1996UAUkrainian 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 93 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 77 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 77 | #36,202 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 65 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 62 | #1,479 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Filin mean, and where does it come from?
- rope, cord Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Filin?
- A machine transcription gives /fʲɫɪn/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Filin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Филин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Filin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 102 people named Filin in 2026, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Filin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filinThe 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, “Filin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.