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The feil Surname

feil Name Meaning and History

  1. from Middle High German viol ‘violet’, presumably applied as a nickname; this surname occurs mostly in southern Germany.
  2. metonymic occupational name for a filemaker, from Middle High German vile ‘file’.
  3. metonymic occupational name for an arrowsmith, a variant of Pfeil, with the initial consonant cluster reduced to ‘f’ as is common in northern pronunciation Pfeil.

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Distribution of feil Families in the US in 1840
Number of feil families
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