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faler Name Meaning and History

  1. Altered spelling of German Pfahler, Pfähler from Middle High German pfal ‘stake’, ‘post’, an early loan word from Latin palus. It was a topographic name for someone who lived near a post marking the village boundary, or just outside a city wall; or alternatively an occupational name for a postmaker.
  2. Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Fehler.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of faler Families in the US in 1920
Number of faler families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
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