Last name: FILES

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FILES : This last name is indexed 13,132 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

FILES : 1: English: variant of Fildes.2: English: variant of Fill with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.3: Croatian (Fileš): from the personal name Fileš of Hungarian origin (see 4 below) or a nickname for someone with prominent ears from Hungarian füles ‘having ears’ (compare 4 below).4: Probably also an Americanized form of Hungarian Füles: from Füles a pet form of the personal name Fülöp (see Philip compare File) or a nickname for someone with prominent ears derived from fül ‘ear’.

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