Pell as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pell

What is the meaning of the name Pell ?

The baby name Pell is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced PEL (IPA: /pɛl/).

Pell is English, Scandinavian in Origin.

Pell is an English surname-turned-given name. It derives from Middle English pelle or pel, from Old French pel, ultimately Latin pellis, meaning skin or hide. The surname likely marked a furrier or skin dealer; by extension, pell also came to mean a parchment roll, as in the Exchequer’s Clerks of the Pells, so the name may also reference a financial scribe or keeper of rolls. Thus, its sense ranges from “fur trader” to “parchment/roll.”

Documented in England from the 13th century, the surname is borne by figures such as mathematician John Pell (to whom Pell’s equation was later misattributed) and U.S. senator Claiborne Pell. As a given name, Pell is rare in the Anglophone world, fitting today’s taste for crisp, surname-based choices and sometimes serving as a short form of Pelham. Related forms include Pel and the diminutives Pellie; Pelle appears in Scandinavia (a separate diminutive of Per/Peter).

⚙ Pell is a rare name. Across 17 countries, we found 38 recorded uses of it.