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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and Irish : variant of Picken.
  • Gen. Andrew Pickens (1739–1817) of the American Revolution was the son of a Scottish immigrant, whose forebears are reputed to have been French Protestants who left France after the beginning of religious persecution in 1685.

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