Peels Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Cumberland 4
Hunts and Rutland 0
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Peels Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Peels family

Profession Census Frequency
Grocer 1
Farmer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Peels

Name Census Frequency
John Peels 12
Mary Peels 11
William Peels 8
Sarah Peels 6
Ann Peels 5
Thomas Peels 5
Catherine Peels 4
Edward Peels 4
Elizabeth Peels 4
Emma Peels 4
Joseph Peels 4
Martha Peels 4
Arthur Peels 3
George Peels 3
Alice Peels 2
Amelia Peels 2
Annie Peels 2
Benjamin Peels 2
Charles Peels 2
Edwin Peels 2
Ellen Peels 2
Fanny Peels 2
Harriet Peels 2
James Peels 2
Jane Peels 2

Peels Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Pells 80% 3,114
2 Pooles 50% 1,335
3 Poles 40% 736
4 Please 50% 582
5 Piles 40% 495
6 Pales 40% 446
7 Pails 60% 336
8 Pools 60% 328
9 Pauls 60% 293
10 Pouls 60% 277
11 Plues 40% 204
12 Pluse 20% 171
13 Pailes 50% 152
14 Peels 100% 139
15 Polsue 33% 124
16 Poules 50% 118

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The surname Peels is the 14th most popular variant of Pells.

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