French: from Old French pel(l)erin, pelegrin
‘pilgrim’; a nickname for a person who had been on a pilgrimage to the
Holy Land or to a famous holy site elsewhere. See also Pilgrim.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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