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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for someone who behaved in a skittish or unpredictable manner, from Middle High German, Middle Low German vole ‘foal’.
  • German : variant of Feil 2.
  • German : from Swabian Föhl ‘spark’, ‘embers’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith or smelter, or as a nickname for a hot-tempered person.

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