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The Pile surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,403 people carried this name — #19,296 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 208,300 people counted. That is down 4% from 1,465 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 72 people named Pile.

5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Loiret.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 5
Loiret 13
Paris 6
Gard 6
Eure 4
Dordogne 4
Gironde 4
Tarn-et-Garonne 4
Pyrénées-Atlantiques 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In the Nordic population registers

35 people named Pile is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 35

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Among the farmers of England and Wales, 1880s

Pile was found among the farmers of 3 counties.

It was most frequent in Devon: 22 in every 10,000 farmers there — about 1 in 455. Guppy counted the farmers listed in each county’s directory and recorded a name only where it reached about 7 in every 10,000; where it does not appear, it was rarer than that, not absent.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Per 10,000 farmers, by county

Devon 22
Wiltshire 18
Dorset 16

H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), alphabetical list of English and Welsh names — public domain · farmers in Kelly’s Post Office Directories of the 1880s, per 10,000 farmers in each county.

In print

Pile in American newspapers,
1869–1879.

Newspaper page from The New Orleans Daily Democrat carrying the name Pile
The New Orleans Daily Democrat 1879-01-20
Newspaper page from The New Orleans Daily Democrat carrying the name Pile
The New Orleans Daily Democrat 1879-01-19
Newspaper page from New-york Tribune carrying the name Pile
New-york Tribune 1869-10-29

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,124,733 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Pile,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Caroline Maude Nicholson
    Caroline Maude Nicholson d. 1948
  • Rachel Eliza Pile d. 1942
  • Anna Rachel Pile d. 1961
  • Henry Alleyne Pile d. 1933
  • Emily Rebecca Alleyne d. 1941
  • Margaret Lucy Bonner d. 1989

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Pile.

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