Fail Family History
Fail Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McPhail . Scottish: habitational name from Fail in Ayrshire. Manx: variant of Fayle from Mac Giolla Phoil ‘son of Paul's servant’. South German: metonymic occupational name for a retail dealer who hawks his ware for a huckster from Middle High German feil ‘for sale purchasable’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022