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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a fleet runner, from Old French pie de lievre ‘hare’s foot’.
  • German : occupational name for a calibrator (someone who checked weights and measures), from an agent derivative of Middle Low German pegel ‘mark or measure for gauging fluids’, ‘gauge’.

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