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Our Hiles Surname Project was created in the hope of finding links to our family line(s), and to discover how we fit together with each other. Our surname can mean "health, happiness, prosperity1, luck and fortune2. " Any person who exemplified these attributes could have been surnamed "Heil ", just as the nickname '"Heil" [was used] for "Heinrich" in Dutch and North German and could have been elevated to the surname.3 Here are some of the imaginative ways our surname has been spelled4 and misspelled in documents thru the centuries: Diles, Haehl, Haehle, Hael, Hailman, Hales, Hayal, Hayl, Hayle, Hayles, Heel, Heell, Heellin5, Hehl, Heil, Heile, Heiler, Heilin, Heill, Heillman(n), Heilman(n), Heilner, Heiltz, Heldner, Helen, Helin, Hell, Hellen, Heller, Helles, Hellessor, Hellin, Helyne, Heyel, Heyl, Heyle, Heylen, Heylin, Heylman(n), Heyler, Heyll, Heyly, Heylyn, Heylyne, Heyt, Hial, Hile, Hileman, Hiler, Hiles, Hilese, Hiley, Hill, Hille, Hilles, Hills, Hils, Hiltz, Hoel, Hoell, Hohl, Hoil, Hoile, Hoiles, Hoill, Hole, Holes, Holey, Holl, Holles, Hoy, Hoye, Hoyal, Hoyh, Hoyl, Hoyle, Hoyls, Hoyt, Huyler, Hyle, Hylen, Hylin, Hyline, Hyler, Hyles, Ile, Iles, Ills, Kiles, Skiles
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1 Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker in her book "The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and His Descendants." 2 Ancient German [http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/HEIL#cite_note-fal-0] 3http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=heil 4 Please let us know if you have found your family under another imaginative spelling so that we can include it here. 5Heelin: the ending "in" designates a female in German. So, Heelin would designate a female whose paternal or spousal surname would be "Heel" |