Family name origins & meanings
- French : metonymic occupational name for a torchbearer, from Old French faille ‘torch’ (Late Latin facilla).
- French : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of a kind of silk material known in Old French as faille (Middle High German pfelle, from Latin palliolum, a type of light garment).
- French : nickname for an inept or luckless individual, from Old French faille ‘fault’, ‘failing’, ‘mistake’.
- French : variant spelling of Faile.