Pelly as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pelly

What is the meaning of the name Pelly ?

The baby name Pelly is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced PEL-ee (IPA: /ˈpɛli/).

Pelly is English in Origin.

Pelly is a rare English given name taken from a surname. The surname stems either from Middle English pel(le) ‘skin, hide’ (via Old French, from Latin pellis), denoting a furrier or skinner, or from Anglo-Norman pel ‘stake, palisade,’ used for someone who lived by a stockade or a Northumbrian pele-tower. The sense attached to the name is therefore ‘worker in skins’ or ‘dweller by the palisade.’

Used sporadically as a first or middle name in Britain and the Commonwealth from the 1800s, it gained modest notice through Sir John Henry Pelly, a Hudson’s Bay Company governor, whose name survives in Canadian toponyms. Today Pelly reads as a modern, unisex surname-name; it also appears as a pet form for Pelham or, creatively, Penelope. Variants and related forms include Pelley, Pelley, Pellie, and Pell; Scandinavian Pelle is cognate only by sound.