Last Name PILCHER

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Meaning The pilcher, a pilch-maker, where pilch is a garment of skin, with the hairs on.
A maker of 'pilches,' a kind of great coat or upper garment, in use in the fourteenth century. "After gret heat cometh cold, No man cast his 'pylch' away." - Chauoer.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 5,978 (2000 US census) 4,745 (1990 US census)
Count 5,302 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 88.91%, or 4714 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 5.98%, or 317 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.45%, or 24 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.87%, or 99 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.21%, or 64 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.58%, or 84 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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