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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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