Pedlow Family History

English and Irish: nickname from Anglo-Norman French pie de leu ‘wolf's foot’ (French pied de loup). Forms of the surname are found in England and Ireland with the preposition de implying that it is a habitational name. However, no evidence has been found for such a placename so such examples are probably scribal reinterpretations of the surname by analogy with English placenames ending in -low.

14th-century bearers of this surname apparently had estates in Ireland. The surname became frequent in Scotland in the 19th century due to immigration from Ireland. English: variant of Pedley.