The pell Surname
pell Name Meaning and History
- English: from the Middle English personal name Pell, a pet form of Peter.
- English: metonymic occupational name for a dealer in furs, from Middle English, Old French pel ‘skin’.
- English: variant of Pill 1.
- German: variant of Pelle or, in some instances, a variant of Pfell, the South German form of this name, from Middle High German phelle(e) ‘purple silk cloth’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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