Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Scarf
Family name origins & meanings
- 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 1.
- 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’.