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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of German Pfahler, Pfähler from Middle High German pfāl ‘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.
  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Fehler.

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