# Picker (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/picker/  
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 | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 797 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,581 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 387,385 people |
| Change since 2000 | -14.2% (929 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Pickar |

## Etymology

Various origins: * From picker, an English occupational surname for someone who used a pick. * Borrowed from German Picker, an occupational surname for someone who used a pickaxe. * Borrowed from Dutch Picker, an occupational surname for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower. * Jewish Ashkenazi nickname for a glutton, from Yiddish פּיקן (pikn, “to peck”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Picker 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) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Similar surnames

Packer, Pizarro, Peguero, Pecora, Passaro, Pekar, Pecor, Paucar, Puskar.

## 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.