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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Worcestershire and West Midlands) : habitational name from Peplow in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Papelau. This may be from Old English pyppel ‘pebble’ + hlāw ‘hill’.
  • German : habitational name from Peplow in Mecklenburg.

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