Pilot Family History
Pilot Name Meaning
English: from Middle English Pilat, Pilet, Pilot (from Latin Pīlatus), used either as personal name or as nickname for a boastful person or for one who played the part of Pilate in the medieval mystery plays, where he was portrayed as a proud, ranting tyrant.
French: diminutive of Pile ‘mortar, trough’ or a topographic name (referring e.g. to a culminating point) or nickname (for a tall, thin person) based on Old French pilot ‘post, stake’. It is also found in England, as a surname of Huguenot origin.
Italian (Friuli): from old Friulian pilot ‘spike, bodkin’. Compare Pillot .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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