# Pichon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pichon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,339 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,997 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 230,579 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.0% (1,251 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Pichon.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pichon in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 41% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 41% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 9.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 4.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pichon in France, the United Kingdom and Argentina.

## People named Pichon

- Marinette Pichon, Association footballer wuilmer Devera
- Liz Pichon, British artist and children's writer
- Enrique Pichon-Rivière, Argentine psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and social psychologist (1907–1977)

## Similar surnames

Picone, Piceno, Pigeon, Piccione, Pickney, Picon, Picciano, Picken, Pagan, Pagano, Pizano, Peckham.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.