Piel Family Name and Heraldry

1,367 Americans were listed as Piel in the 2010 census. French birth records list 3,261 children named Piel between 1891 and 2000.

Arms associated with the name

If a Piel family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows.

Where the name comes from

The meaning of Piel is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. A family Bible, a parish register or an emigration record often gives the first firm date for a Piel ancestor.

Piel is easy to measure, thanks to official name counts. Names that sound alike, such as Pell and Pill, are easily confused in old records. For the full story, order the Piel surname pack.