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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for someone who resembled a bird, in part representing a Middle English continuation of the Old English personal name Fugol, meaning ‘bird’, originally a byname, or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fowler.
  • Americanized spelling of German Faul.

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