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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FAILS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fails is ranked #14382 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fails surname appeared 2,078 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Fails.

    56.1% or 1,167 total occurrences were White.
    38.9% or 809 total occurrences were Black.
    2% or 43 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.7% or 36 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.8% or 17 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.2% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fails' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4681

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fails in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fails in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of fails in a Sentence

  1. Anmol Andore:

    We think that we know what life has to offer, but life never fails to surprise us.

  2. Alex Azar:

    We have product that is going through QC right now -- quality control -- for sterility, identity check -- that -- we have tens and tens of millions of product. We always will. But batches fail. Sterility fails. ... And then you don't have a product for that second dose, and frankly, talking about that or encouraging that can really undermine a critical public health need, which is that people come back for their second vaccine.

  3. Gerald Feierstein:

    The risk, if the project fails, is that you will see in Saudi Arabia the same kind of demographic and societal pressures that led to the Arab Spring explosions in 2011, chaos in Saudi Arabia would have obvious implications for regional security and stability as well as for the global economy and access to secure energy markets.

  4. Leonardo Barreto:

    Today's protests give legitimacy to this process, if the government fails to react, impeachment will move faster.

  5. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

    If Europe fails on the refugee question, its tight bond with universal human rights will be destroyed, and it will no longer be the Europe we dreamed of.

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