Pfahl Family History
Pfahl Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German pfāl ‘post stake pile’ (early loanword from Latin palus) hence a nickname for a tall thin person a topographic name for someone who lived by a palissade or near a post marking the village boundary or just outside a city wall or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made posts and stakes or erected them.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022