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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for someone who used a pick, from Middle English pi(c)k ‘pick’ (see Pick) + the agent suffix -er.
  • English : occupational name for someone who caught or sold pike, from Middle English pike ‘pike’ + the agent suffix -er.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on a pointed hill (see Pike 1), the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • German : occupational name for someone who used a pick or pickaxe, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bicken ‘to prick or stab’.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower, from Middle Dutch picker, pecker.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ with the noun suffix -er.

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