Last Name PICKETT

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Meaning	The son of Picot. A well-known corruption of Pigott. This derivation is, probbaly, not true. Pigott is a corruption of Pickett, or, more correctly, Picot or Pichot. It is strange that while ths name has ramified so strongly, so little can be gleaned of its history. That Picot was a personal name is clear, for Picot, a chief tenant in Hampshire, and Picot de Grentebrig, both occur in Domesday. There wer also two families in Cheshire, the Pigots and Pichots, ran side by side for some generations. It has been claimed that they sprang from one common ancestor - Gilbert Pichot, lord of Broxton. Pitted with the small-pox, spotted in the face, from the French 'Picote.'

Origin	English, French, Irish, Belgian, Guam

Rank	1,046 (2000 US census)	842 (1990 US census)

Count	30,552 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

67.7%, or 20684 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
28.89%, or 8826 total occurrences, as black,
0.34%, or 104 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.45%, or 137 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.28%, or 391 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.34%, or 409 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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