The pelle Surname
pelle Name Meaning and History
- Italian: from pelle ‘skin’, probably used as a nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the skin.
- French (Pellé): nickname for a bald man, from Old French pelé, Latin depilatus ‘stripped (of hair)’.
- Danish and North German: from the personal name Pelle, a vernacular form of Peter.
- German: from Middle Low German pelle ‘precious purple silk cloth’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such cloth or for a maker of official and church vestments.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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