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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from a diminutive of Old French folet ‘fool’.
  • Irish : unexplained; possibly a variant of Phelan, itself a variant of Whelan.
  • Swedish and Danish : from a short form of Follinius, a humanistic name of unexplained origin.

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