Filos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/faɪləʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PAPanama≈1 in 314K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 314K (inferred from the name graph)
133 people
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
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)
Filos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 133 | 1 in 1.6M | 133 | Filos | 6 |
| US United States | — | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 109 | Filos | 20 |
| PA Panama | #854 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 314K | 2 | Filos | 18 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | Filos | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 1 |
133 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Filos 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 Asturian, plural of filu
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 133 | #50,927 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #111,924 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #9,696 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Filos?
- A machine transcription gives /faɪləʊz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Filos have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 133 people named Filos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filos.
- How common is the name Filos?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 133 people named Filos, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Filos compared with other names?
- In Panama, Filos is the 854th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Filos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filosThe 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, “Filos” — the 854th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.