Given name & surname

Pell

“a clerk or one who works with skins”

Pell is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a clerk or one who works with skins.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

One English interpretation is “a clerk or one who works with skins.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is English.

Pell’s family of names

In English usage, Pell has a later derivative in PELLETT. Pell has a related form in Pall. Pell has a related form in Palle.

Walk Pell’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Pell, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

English

Sidell

“from the wide valley”

No U.S. birth series

36% boys · 64% girls

English

Pika

Pika is a masculine given name from English. It is used in Hawaiian and Slovene.

No U.S. birth series

29% boys · 71% girls

English

Sill

“a bright as a beam of light”

No U.S. birth series

56% boys · 44% girls

English · Biblical

ʻEkela

ʻEkela is a unisex given name from Bible. It is used in Hawaiian.

No U.S. birth series

50% boys · 50% girls

English

Iŝmael

Iŝmael is a given name from English. It is used in Esperanto.

No U.S. birth series

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Latin

Jelly

“to congeal”

No U.S. birth series

26% boys · 74% girls

English · Nature

Mere

“star of the sea” · “from the sea of bitterness”

No U.S. birth series

26% boys · 74% girls

English

Sêvê

Sêvê is a given name from English.

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Pell’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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