Pickop Surname

3,602,217th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 30 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Guam

Pickop Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Pickup.' A Lancashire surname from a township and village in the parish of Walley, now styled Yatecum-Pickup Bank. The name has ramified strongly, and can be easily traced back to the neighbourhood of Blackburn as its original home.

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Pickop Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States191:19,076,786604,894
Guam81:20,0153,029
England31:18,572,686338,250
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England411:594,52130,269
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:10,043,737422,899

Pickop Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Pickup.' A Lancashire surname from a township and village in the parish of Walley, now styled Yatecum-Pickup Bank. The name has ramified strongly, and can be easily traced back to the neighbourhood of Blackburn as its original home.

1584. Roger Piccop, of Over Whiteley: Wills at Chester.

1592. James Piccop, of Nether Darwen: ibid.

1623. John Piccope, of Rawtenstall: ibid.

— John Piccopp, of Eccleshill: ibid.

Robert Holden, of Picope Bank, 1595: ibid.

John Tattersall, of Piccope, 1581: ibid.

Robert Tattersall, of Piccope, yeoman, 1587: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) dweller at 1 the Pick or Peak Hope or Hill-Recess [v. Pick (English), Peak(e, and Hope] 2 the Pig-Hope [v. under Pigg] There is a Pickup near Whalley, Lancs.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

The Pickups derive their name from Pickup Bank, or Piccopbanke, a, village in Whalley parish. In the 16th century the Piccopps lived at Lower Darwen, a family with which the Piccops of Eccleshill in the succeeding century were connected: from early in the 17th century the Pickops have held their own estate on the borders of Livesey and Tockholes (A.).

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Pickop Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Pickop Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Pickop is found most in The United States. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pickop? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 3,602,217th most widely held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 242,918,197 people. The surname Pickop is mostly found in The Americas, where 57 percent of Pickop live; 57 percent live in North America and 57 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This last name is most prevalent in The United States, where it is carried by 19 people, or 1 in 19,076,786. In The United States Pickop is most numerous in: New York, where 26 percent are found, Texas, where 26 percent are found and Hawaii, where 11 percent are found. Other than The United States Pickop is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Guam, where 27 percent are found and England, where 10 percent are found.

Pickop Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Pickop has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 380 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it decreased 93 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Pickop Last Name Statistics demography

Pickop earn a lot less than the average income. In United States they earn 47.57% less than the national average, earning $22,625 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pickopp920/
Pikop9195/
Piscop8320/
Pickov833/
Picoup831/
Picope831/
Pickap831/
Pichkov77165/
Piecoup7749/
Piscope777/
Peiscop772/
Picotpe772/
Picov7355/
Pukop7314/
Pikap7311/
Pikob734/
Pekop733/
Piekkopf719/
Peicov67241/
Pikoub67109/
Peikov6785/
Paikov6774/
Piekap6767/
Pikkov6750/
Peacop6729/
Pecoup6728/
Pikhov6728/
Poikov6712/
Peckov6710/
Paikap675/
Pescop671/
Pyckov671/
Paicov671/

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