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The pyle Surname

pyle Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English pile ‘stake’, ‘post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike’, ‘javelin’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark or a metonymic occupational name for a stake maker or a nickname for a tall strong man.
  2. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith, from pijl ‘arrow’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pyle Families in the US in 1920
Number of pyle families
 206-409
 69-205
 1-68
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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