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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English Pulleis ‘man from Apulia’ (in Italy) (Middle English Poille, Poyle, Apuelle).
  • English : habitational name from Pulley in Shropshire.
  • German (of Slavic origin) : from a personal name formed with Old Slavic bolij ‘more’, or a variant of Puley, from the medieval name of a Christian martyr Pelagius (from Greek pelagos ‘sea’).

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