Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch pegel, peil, a mark used in measuring liquids or a measure of the strength of beer.
- Dutch : variant of the habitational name Peel 2.
- American spelling of Dutch Pijl, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of arrows or an archer, from pijl ‘arrow’.
- German : variant of Pfeil, or an Americanized spelling of the same name.
- German : from a short form (Bilo) of a Germanic personal name related to Old Saxon bīl ‘sword’.