Peel Family History
Peel Name Meaning
English (mainly northern): from Anglo-Norman French pel ‘stake’, ‘pole’ (Old French piel, from Latin palus), a nickname for a tall, thin man. It may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a stake fence or in a property defended by one, or a metonymic occupational name for a builder of such fences. Compare Pallister.Dutch: habitational name from places so called in North Brabant (where there is also a district called De Peel) and Dutch Limburg, from De Peel in Ravels, Antwerp province, or from Pedele in Kaggevinne and in Adorp, Brabant.German: possily a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place name.German: perhaps an altered spelling of Piel or Piehl.
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Name Distribution of Peel Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Peel families
 48 - 93  17 - 47 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Peel families
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930 - 1,857 311 - 929 |
1 - 310 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Peel families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Peel Family Origin
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Peel Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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