Filion
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de l’ancien français fillon « petit garçon », probablement le surnom du dernier de la famille
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/filjon/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Filion is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 493K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 493K (inferred from the name graph)
675 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de l’ancien français fillon « petit garçon », probablement le surnom du dernier de la famille.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where the surname Filion is found
(measured from records)Filion 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 675 | 1 in 493K | 717 | Filion | 8 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Filion | 12 |
| FR France | — | — | 18 | — | — |
675 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Filion 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of filio
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)- Gérard Filionb. 1909CACanadian businessman and journalist (1909–2005)
- John Filionb. 1950CACanadian journalist
- Roseline Filionb. 1987CACanadian diver
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Filion?
- In Spanish /filjon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Filion mean?
- Recorded meaning: de l’ancien français fillon « petit garçon », probablement le surnom du dernier de la famille.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Filion?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 675 people named Filion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filion. After it come Spain and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Filion most common?
- Filion is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 493 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Filion?
- In the United States, the national register counted 675 people named Filion in 2010, about 1 in 493 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Filion?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filionThe 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, “Filion”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.