Faille

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: fault

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/faj/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary

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Faille is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 110Kfew records
  • BEBelgium1 in 301K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈940 people, est.

Record sources
152 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Faille is read

(measured from records)

Faille is one spelling over 2 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.

  • French45%

    fault

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    altération de Faye, de (La) Faye, nom de plusieurs localités en France.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • English45%

    A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Faille is found

(measured from records)

Faille 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.

Where Faille is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈940 est.≈1 in 73K94Faille152
CA Canada≈390 est.≈1 in 106K—Faille61
US United States3311 in 1M377Faille95
NL Netherlands≈110 est.≈1 in 171K—Faille10
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 683KlistedFaille5
OM Oman≈43 est.≈1 in 124K—Faille3
BE Belgium391 in 301K39Faille32

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Faille is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Faillé

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Faille is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, genitive singular of faill

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In fro, failure

    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)
1850190019502000Jacob Baart de la Faille, b. 1886Muriel Faille, b. 1953Meili Faille, b. 1972

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)
FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Faille, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Faille come from?
A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Faille?
In French /faj/ (Wiktionary).
What does the name Faille mean?
In French, fault
Which countries have the most people with the surname Faille?
Mondonomo estimates about 944 people named Faille in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faille. After it come Canada, United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Faille?
In the United States, the national register counted 331 people named Faille in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million 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, “Faille”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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