- 487
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Pelikan
Meaning & Origins
Czech and Slovak (Pelikán), Hungarian, and German: habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a pelican (Czech and Hungarian pelikán, Middle High German pellikān). The pelican was regarded as a symbol of piety in Christian tradition: the female pelican was supposed, in medieval religious folklore, to feed her young with her own blood by plucking the feathers from her breast. Consequently, the family name might be a nickname for a selfless person.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 487
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Missouri
- has the most people named Pelikan per capita
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