Peel Family History

English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived or worked at a small castle, a wooden fort, or a house defended by a palisade (Middle English and Old French pel, piel ‘stake, pallisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named.

English (mainly northern): variant of Pell.

English (mainly northern): nickname from Middle English and Old French pel ‘stake’, perhaps for a tall thin person.

Dutch: habitational name from any of the places so called in North Brabant (where there is also a district called De Peel) and Dutch Limburg, from De Peel in Ravels, Antwerp province, or from Pedele in Kaggevinne and in Adorp, Brabant.

German: possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified placename. Perhaps an altered form of German Piel or Piehl.