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The PICKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 929 25060 0 3
United States (1880 census) 210 18622 0 4
Change since 1880 +719 -6438 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 240 6400 0.001 15
United Kingdom 221 15477 0 5
Top States for PICKER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 132 5297 0.002 24
California 115 19762 0.000 3
New York 87 20479 0.000 5
Florida 70 22458 0.000 4
New Jersey 49 19211 0.001 6
Top States for PICKER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 132 5297 0.002 24
Oregon 35 11810 0.001 10
Colorado 26 19427 0.001 6
New Jersey 49 19211 0.001 6
Maryland 30 16791 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of PICKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PICKER 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PICKER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PICKER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 890 95.8
White (Hispanic) 19 2.05
Black/African American 7 0.75
Mixed Race 6 0.65
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PICKER in historical publications

PICKER. An old Avord for a pilferer, or

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 PICKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PICKER.

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 PICKER

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