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The PICKETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 30,552 1046 0.011 113
United States (1880 census) 5,898 1045 0.012 118
Change since 1880 +24654 -1 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,121 1476 0.007 69
United Kingdom 3,680 1692 0.008 80
Top States for PICKETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,271 1161 0.011 109
Florida 1,775 1206 0.011 111
California 1,764 1905 0.005 52
North Carolina 1,613 753 0.020 200
Alabama 1,535 488 0.035 345
Top States for PICKETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,535 488 0.035 345
Mississippi 710 650 0.025 250
Tennessee 1,378 675 0.024 242
Indiana 1,373 506 0.023 226
North Carolina 1,613 753 0.020 200

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

Classification and Origin of PICKETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PICKETT 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 PICKETT 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 PICKETT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 409 1.34
Mixed Race 391 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 137 0.45
Asian/Pacific 104 0.34
White (Caucasian) 20,684 67.7
Black/African American 8,826 28.89

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

Meaning of PICKETT in historical publications

PICKETT.

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 PICKETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PICKETT.

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 PICKETT

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