How common is the surname Pickard?

9,053 people in the United States had the surname Pickard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,104 Americans. It ranked 3,928th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Pickard?

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, British entomologist (1828–1917), followed by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard.

Where is the surname Pickard most common?

Wikidata records people named Pickard in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Is the surname Pickard getting more or less common?

More common. 8,828 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,053 in 2010, up 2.5%.

The surname Pickard

A surname, carried by 9,053 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P263

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pickard is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

A surname originating as an ethnonym, relating to someone from Picardy.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,053 people named Pickard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,104 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,828.

#3,928

rank among US surnames

9,053

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,692)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,919	Redden	9,067	34,052
#3,920	Goad	9,062	34,070
#3,922	Lazaro	9,061	34,074
#3,923	Erb	9,060	34,078
#3,924	Putman	9,058	34,085
#3,925	Martel	9,056	34,093
#3,927	Reimer	9,055	34,097

Who is named Pickard

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

89% of people named Pickard identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Pickards

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
British entomologist (1828–1917)
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
American radio pioneer (1877–1956)
Nancy Pickard
American writer, born 1945

Notable Pickards come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pickard

Pickard has the Soundex code P263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P263.

Questions

How common is the surname Pickard?: 9,053 people in the United States had the surname Pickard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,104 Americans. It ranked 3,928th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pickard?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Pickard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Pickard?: Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, British entomologist (1828–1917), followed by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard.
Where is the surname Pickard most common?: Wikidata records people named Pickard in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Is the surname Pickard getting more or less common?: More common. 8,828 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,053 in 2010, up 2.5%.