Peel Name Meaning
English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived or worked at a small castle a wooden fort or a house defended by a palisade (Middle English and Old French pel piel ‘stake pallisade’) or a habitational name from a place so named. English (mainly northern): variant of Pell . English (mainly northern): nickname from Middle English and Old French pel ‘stake’ perhaps for a tall thin person. Dutch: habitational name from any of the places so called in North Brabant (where there is also a district called De Peel) and Dutch Limburg from De Peel in Ravels Antwerp province or from Pedele in Kaggevinne and in Adorp Brabant. German: possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified placename. Perhaps an altered form of German Piel or Piehl .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Peil, Pell, Peek, Pehl, Perl, Speer, Keel, Seel, Poel, Peet
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts