English: habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named
with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall
suggests that this was earlier Picoringas ‘people on the
ridge of the pointed hill’ (see Orr 3 and Pike 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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