Pelzer Name Origin and Family Crest

In Wikidata, Pelzer is listed as a German surname. Pelzer ranked 13,845 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,183 people answering to the name. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames. From 1891 to 2000, 198 births in France were registered under Pelzer. Births under the name grew in the later decades. We don't publish a meaning for Pelzer without a reliable source. Our researchers work it out from the records of each family.

Public name statistics give a good picture of the Pelzer surname.

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Pelzer family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. Get the complete Pelzer report, with a museum-style coat of arms.