The pilch Surname
pilch Name Meaning and History
- English (Norfolk): from Middle English pilch, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of pilches or a nickname for a habitual wearer of these. A pilch (from Late Latin pellicia, a derivative of pellis ‘skin’, ‘hide’) was a kind of coarse leather garment with the hair or fur still on it.
- Polish: nickname from Old Polish pilch ‘gray squirrel’.
- Jewish (from Ukraine): metonymic occupational name from Yiddish piltsh ‘felt’ (see 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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