Pfeil Last Name Facts and Heraldry

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Pfeil coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

Pfeil by the numbers

Public name statistics give a good picture of the Pfeil surname. The 2010 census count for Pfeil in the United States was 2,531, good for rank 12,285. 130 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Pfeil name at birth.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Pfeil, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Pfeil is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name.

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