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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : topographic name from Old English pīling ‘dweller by the stake’ or pylling ‘dweller by the stream’.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Straubing, Bavaria. Compare Billing.
  • German : patronymic derivative of Pille 1.

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