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pickard Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly Yorkshire) and German: variant of Picard.
  2. English: some early examples, such as Paganus filius Pichardi (Hampshire, 1160), seem to point to derivation from a Germanic personal name, probably composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point’, ‘pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  3. Dutch: regional name for someone from Picardy in northern France.
  4. German: variant of Picker 4.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pickard Families in the US in 1920
Number of pickard families
 93-183
 32-92		 1-31
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Pickards in Upstate New York Pickard 32
Pickards, Funnels, Pilbeams, Budgen, Jenners VickiIreneMorrison 1
Pickard Familys Ernest Pickard 49
Oklahoma Pickard's morganbryan2002 0
John Pickard npickardsamuel 1
Louis Pickard Jacki 1
Pickard Kentucky BethPickardSmith 8
Jack Pickard -- Idaho CCC in 1936 clakatos1018 0
Pickards in Tenn. William T. Pickard 45
Joseph and Mary Ann inglebyval 2
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