Feil Family History
Feil Name Meaning
from Middle High German viol ‘violet’,
presumably applied as a nickname; this surname occurs mostly in
southern Germany.metonymic occupational name for a filemaker,
from Middle High German vile ‘file’.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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Feil Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Feil families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Feil families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Feil Family Origin
Feil Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Feil
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Feil Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Feil Civil War Service Records
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