I was watching the men's NCAA swimming championships, which just ended, and one of the swimmers from the University of Arizona was senior Brooks Fail, who finished seventh in the 1650-yard freestyle, which is definitely NOT a failure. (Made him an All-American.)
Anyways, because I thought that the name "Fail" might have some challenges to live with, I wondered where that name came from. Turns out it's probably Scottish in origin, and likely was a truncation of MacPhail (or McPhail).
Ancestry.com (not an advertisement): Fail
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