Faille Family History
Faille Name Meaning
Altered form of French Faye . Compare Fayette 1 and Foy 5. French: metonymic occupational name for a torchbearer from Old French faille ‘torch’ (from Late Latin facilla). French: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of a kind of silk material known in Old French as faille (from Middle High German pfelle from Latin palliolum denoting a type of light garment). French: nickname for an inept or luckless individual or for a liar from Old French faille ‘fault mistake’ also ‘lie’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022