Panel Surname History

Origins Available:
Scotland

The Clan from whom the Panel family descends began among the ancient Dalriadan kingdom of the west coast of Scotland. Their name comes from the personal name Payne. Panel is a patronymic surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames. Although this interpretation of the etymology of the surname Panel is uncertain, it is generally accepted at the present time.

Early Origins of the Panel family

The surname Panel was first found in Yorkshire, where they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Early History of the Panel family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Panel research. Another 97 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1180, 1265 and 1821 are included under the topic Early Panel History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Panel Spelling Variations

Historical recordings of the name Panel include many spelling variations. They are the result of repeated translations of the name from Gaelic to English and inconsistencies in spelling rules. They include Pagan, Paganell, Paganel, Pagnell and others.

Early Notables of the Panel family

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Panel Ranking

In France, the name Panel is the 8,993^rd most popular surname with an estimated 500 - 1,000 people with that name. 1

Panel migration to the United States +

Significant portions of the populations of both the United States and Canada are still made up of the ancestors of Dalriadan families. Some of those in Canada originally settled the United States, but went north as United Empire Loyalists in the American War of Independence. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the ancestors of many Scots on both sides of the border begin to recover their collective national heritage through Clan societies and highland games. Some of the first North American settlers carried this name or one of its variants:

Panel Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Nicolas Panel, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1816 2
George Panel, who arrived in New York, NY in 1817 2

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)