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Peel

in the US

There are 5,660 people with the last name "Peel" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Peel 4,842
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  5. is 4,842nd most common Peel
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  7. is 4,844th most common Fife
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Similar Names and Nicknames

Peeler, Peele, Pell, Piel, Pelley, Peal, Peil, Peelman, Pelle, Puello

Most Common First Names for Peel

Robert, James, John, William, David, Michael, Richard, Mary, Thomas, Patricia

Meaning & History

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: possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place name.

German: perhaps an altered spelling of Piel or Piehl.

Recent Searches for "Peel" in the US

Since June 2009
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Robert Peel (69 searches)
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