Family name origins & meanings
- English (chiefly Midlands and West Yorkshire) : (of Norman origin): nickname for a stealthy person, from Old French pie de leu ‘wolf’s foot’.
- English (chiefly Midlands and West Yorkshire) : habitational name from Pedley Barton in East Worlington, Devon, named from an Old English personal name Pidda + Old English lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’.