Pell Family History
Pell Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Pell a pet form of Peter . English: metonymic occupational name for a dealer in furs from Middle English Old French pel ‘skin’. English: variant of Pill German: variant of Pelle or in some instances a variant of Pfell the South German form of this name from Middle High German phelle(e) ‘purple silk cloth’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022