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    The surname Picton

    An English place surname, carried by 380 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P235

    Picton: #54,296 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Picton #54,296, 380 people Picton: #54,296 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Picton #54,296, 380 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Picton is more common than 66.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either the Old English personal name *Pīca or pīc (“point, peak, pinnacle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Picton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 380 people named Picton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 812,488 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 380.

    #54,296
    rank among US surnames
    380
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #51,458)

    Who is named Picton

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

    89% of people named Picton identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Two or more races 3.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Picton

    Picton has the Soundex code P235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P235.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Picton come from?
    From either the Old English personal name *Pīca or pīc (“point, peak, pinnacle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Picton?
    380 people in the United States had the surname Picton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 812,488 Americans. It ranked 54,296th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Picton?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Picton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Picton?
    Picton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Picton getting more or less common?
    About as common. 380 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 380 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.