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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for a gossipy or garrulous person, from the central-southern Italian word pica ‘magpie’. Compare Picazo.
  • Catalan : habitational name from any of the numerous places called Pica.
  • Catalan : from either pica ‘pointed object’ (weapon, etc.) or a derivative of picar ‘to prick’.

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