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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : southern variant of Pigeon.
  • French : metonymic occupational name from a diminutive of Old French pic ‘pick’. Compare Pike 3.
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from pichon ‘jug’, ‘pitcher’.
  • French : nickname from pichon ‘little’.
  • Spanish (Pichón) : from a term of endearment, pichón ‘little dove’.
  • The name is rare in Canada; in the U.S. it is concentrated around the Great Lakes and in LA.

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