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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly West Midlands) : from a diminutive of Pick.
  • English and Scottish : from the Anglo-Norman French personal name Picon, Pi(c)quin, a pet form of Pic.
  • German : probably a variant of Pick 1 or 2.

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