# Pick (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,442 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,451 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 89,699 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.5% (3,144 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English, Dutch, and German surname, related to pickaxe. * As a German surname, from Low German pick (“pitch”), itself ultimately from Latin pix. * As an English surname, from pike (“kind of fish”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pick 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) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pick in Germany, Austria and Cisleithania.

## People named Pick

- Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim (1859–1942)
- Lupu Pick, actor, film director (1886–1931)
- Hannah Elizabeth Pick Goslar, Anne Frank friend (1928–2022)
- Käthe Leichter, Austrian writer (1895–1942)

## Similar surnames

Peck, Pike, Pack, Paik, Picou, Pica, Pico, Piche, Pich, Piech, Page, Pace.

## 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.