as a Last Name
- 6,183
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Peel
Meaning & Origins
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.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,183
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Peel per capita
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