How common is the surname Picker?

797 people in the United States had the surname Picker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 387,385 Americans. It ranked 29,581st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Picker?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Picker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Picker getting more or less common?

Less common. 929 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 797 in 2010, down 14%.

The surname Picker

A German occupational surname, carried by 797 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Picker is more common than 81.8% of them.

Origin

German origin

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”).

Picker is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 797 people named Picker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 387,385 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 929.

#29,581

rank among US surnames

797

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-14.2%

change since 2000 (was #25,060)

Who is named Picker

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

95% of people named Picker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Pickar

Surnames that sound like Picker

Packer

Picker has the Soundex code P260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P260.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Picker come from?: 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…
How common is the surname Picker?: 797 people in the United States had the surname Picker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 387,385 Americans. It ranked 29,581st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Picker?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Picker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Picker?: Picker is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Picker getting more or less common?: Less common. 929 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 797 in 2010, down 14%.
What are other spellings of Picker?: Pickar.