Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German (Silesian) : variant of Peschel, from a pet form of the personal name Puscho, from a Slavic form of Peter.
  • Eastern German (Silesian) : from a pet form of a Slavic personal name formed with Slavic bog ‘god’.

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