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pile Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Devon): variant spelling of Pyle.
  2. French: of uncertain origin: perhaps from Old French pile ‘trough’, a topographic name for someone who lived in a hollow, or alternatively a habitational name from any of the minor places named with this word.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The pile name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the pile family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of pile Families in the US in 1920
Number of pile families
 37-72
 13-36		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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