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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Iles.
  • Hungarian (Illés) : from the old ecclesiastical name Illés, variant of Éliás, Hungarian form of Elijah.
  • German : patronymic from the personal name Ille, one of several vernacular forms of Aegidius (see Giles).

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