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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of pic ‘pick’, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used such implements.
  • Spanish and Galician (Picón) : possibly a nickname from picón ‘long in the tooth’ (of a horse), or a habitational name from any of the places in Galicia so named.

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