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    The surname Pickerill

    An English nickname surname, carried by 779 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P264

    Pickerill: #30,101 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Pickerill #30,101, 779 people Pickerill: #30,101 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Pickerill #30,101, 779 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pickerill is more common than 81.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English pikerell (“young pike”), a nickname for a sharp and aggressive person.

    Pickerill is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 779 people named Pickerill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 396,336 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 760.

    #30,101
    rank among US surnames
    779
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #29,325)

    Who is named Pickerill

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

    98% of people named Pickerill identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 98%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 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

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Pickerill

    Pickerill has the Soundex code P264, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P264.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pickerill come from?
    From Middle English pikerell (“young pike”), a nickname for a sharp and aggressive person.
    How common is the surname Pickerill?
    779 people in the United States had the surname Pickerill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 396,336 Americans. It ranked 30,101st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pickerill?
    In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Pickerill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Pickerill?
    Pickerill is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Pickerill getting more or less common?
    More common. 760 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 779 in 2010, up 2.5%.
    What are other spellings of Pickerill?
    Pickerel, Pickrel and Pickrell.