Pilz Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Pilz, so the heraldry linked to Pelz is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

Pilz is an established spelling of the German surname Pelz. Name scholars give the meaning as “A furrier”.

Pilz writes “i” in place of the “e” found in Pelz, a common scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Peltz. The 2010 census count for Pilz in the United States was 691, good for rank 33,121.

Get the complete Pilz report, with a museum-style coat of arms.