Family name origins & meanings
- Canadian spelling of French Piquet, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked with a pick, from a diminutive of pic ‘pick’. The ending is not feminine, but reflects the Canadian practice of pronouncing the final -t, unlike metropolitan French.
- A Piquet, also called <xref>Lafleur</xref>, from the Maine region of France, is documented in Quebec City in 1706.