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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Danish : variant of Pech.
  • Polish : nickname for a pushy person, from Polish dialect pichać ‘to push’.
  • Catalan : variant of pic, a word of Celtic origin meaning ‘(mountain) peak’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a pointed peak, or a habitational name from any place named with this word.

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