Skip to content

The surname Picou

A surname, carried by 1,982 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P200

Picou: #14,933 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Picou #14,933, 1,982 people Picou: #14,933 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Picou #14,933, 1,982 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Picou is more common than 90.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,982 people named Picou in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,775 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,963.

#14,933
rank among US surnames
1,982
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+1%
change since 2000 (was #14,077)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,930Delaluz1,983155,696
#14,933Sutliff1,982155,775
#14,937Einhorn1,981155,853

Who is named Picou

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

76% of people named Picou identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 76%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Picou

Picou has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

Questions

How common is the surname Picou?
1,982 people in the United States had the surname Picou in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,775 Americans. It ranked 14,933rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Picou?
In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Picou identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Picou getting more or less common?
More common. 1,963 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,982 in 2010, up 1.0%.