Given name & surname · also Scots
Peebles
“tent, temporary settlement”
Peebles is a surname from Scots, ultimately from Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Peebles goes back to Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll, meaning “tent, temporary settlement.”
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Where it comes from
Peebles comes from Scots, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Scots Peebles, from Scottish Gaelic Na, from Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll (“tent, temporary settlement”), from Latin pāpiliō.
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Peebles’s family of names
In English usage, Peebles as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with PAPILLON.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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