Pelle Family History
- Pelle Name Meaning
- Italian: from pelle ‘skin’, probably used as a nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the skin. French (Pellé): nickname for a bald man, from Old French pelé, Latin depilatus ‘stripped (of hair)’. Danish and North German: from the personal name Pelle, a vernacular form of Peter. German: from Middle Low German pelle ‘precious purple silk cloth’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such cloth or for a maker of official and church vestments.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 44,781 Historical Documents with Pelle on Ancestry
- 28,379 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,923 Census and Voter Lists
- 620 Military Records
- 2,212 Immigration Records
- 9,647 Member Trees
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Number of Pelle families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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