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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Portuguese, Galician : from pico ‘beak’ or ‘(mountain) peak’; perhaps a nickname for someone who had a prominent pointed nose, a topographic name for someone who lived by a peak, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Pico in Galicia, El Pico in Asturies).
  • Catalan (Picó) : probably a nickname from Catalan picó ‘having a thick upper lip’.
  • Italian : from pico ‘woodpecker’ or southern dialect picu ‘(pick)axe’.

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