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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from pigeon ‘pigeon’ (Old French pijon ‘young bird’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons, or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds are easily taken.
  • In some cases, an altered form of French PetitJean.
  • English : variant spelling of Pidgeon.
  • A person from Paris with the name Pigeon is documented in Montreal in 1662. Another is recorded with the secondary surname Petitjean.

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