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The PICARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,679 4271 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 622 8099 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +7057 +3828 +0.002 +16
Other Countries
Australia 59 22364 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PICARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,038 805 0.016 163
Louisiana 781 802 0.017 175
Florida 589 3375 0.004 37
Connecticut 491 757 0.014 144
Maine 434 538 0.034 340
Top States for PICARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 434 538 0.034 340
Rhode Island 294 400 0.028 280
Delaware 210 584 0.027 268
New Hampshire 284 634 0.023 230
Louisiana 781 802 0.017 175

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PICARD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PICARD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PICARD in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PICARD by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PICARD

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PICARD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PICARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 224 2.92
Native American/Alaskan 142 1.85
Black/African American 119 1.55
Mixed Race 99 1.29
Asian/Pacific 49 0.64
White (Caucasian) 7,046 91.76

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PICARD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PICARD in historical publications

PICARD. PICKARD. A native of Picardy. Pikard, Pikart. H.R. One of this name changed it, at the command of Edw. IV., to Ruddle, the place of his birth. Camden.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PICARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PICARD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PICARD

The following words are slight variants of PICARD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.