How common is the surname Pick?

3,442 people in the United States had the surname Pick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,699 Americans. It ranked 9,451st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pick?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Pick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Pick?

Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim (1859–1942), followed by Lupu Pick.

Where is the surname Pick most common?

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

Is the surname Pick getting more or less common?

More common. 3,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,442 in 2010, up 9.5%.

The surname Pick

A German surname, carried by 3,442 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pick is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

* 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”).

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,442 people named Pick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,699 Americans. That is up 9.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,144.

#9,451

rank among US surnames

3,442

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+9.5%

change since 2000 (was #9,484)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,444	Durso	3,445	89,621
#9,446	McGruder	3,444	89,647
#9,449	Subramanian	3,443	89,673
#9,451	Pick	3,442	89,699
#9,455	Antonucci	3,441	89,726
#9,458	Borrelli	3,440	89,752

Who is named Pick

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Pick identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Picks

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

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)

Notable Picks come mostly from Germany (2), Austria (1) and Cisleithania (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pick

Pick has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pick come from?: * 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”).
How common is the surname Pick?: 3,442 people in the United States had the surname Pick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,699 Americans. It ranked 9,451st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pick?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Pick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Pick?: Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim (1859–1942), followed by Lupu Pick.
Where is the surname Pick most common?: Wikidata records people named Pick in Germany, Austria and Cisleithania.
Is the surname Pick getting more or less common?: More common. 3,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,442 in 2010, up 9.5%.