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    The surname Pickney

    A surname, carried by 1,208 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P250

    Pickney: #21,599 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pickney #21,599, 1,208 people Pickney: #21,599 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pickney #21,599, 1,208 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pickney is more common than 86.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,208 people named Pickney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 255,584 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,246.

    #21,599
    rank among US surnames
    1,208
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3%
    change since 2000 (was #19,942)

    Who is named Pickney

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

    66% of people named Pickney identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 66%
    • White (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pickney

    Pickney has the Soundex code P250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P250.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pickney?
    1,208 people in the United States had the surname Pickney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 255,584 Americans. It ranked 21,599th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pickney?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Pickney identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pickney getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,208 in 2010, down 3.0%.