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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly from the hill name Pendle (composed of the Celtic element penn ‘hill’, ‘head’ + a tautologous Old English hyll).
  • Probably an altered spelling of Pendel, a South German variant of Bendel.

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