Pickup Surname

77,592nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,303 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
Gibraltar

Pickup 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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Pickup Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4,0381:13,7982,044
United States9821:369,10332,764
Australia4451:60,6647,336
Canada3241:113,72112,112
Scotland811:66,0975,205
Wales801:38,6823,791
New Zealand761:59,5839,301
South Africa751:722,36951,132
Botswana331:66,27111,607
Liberia331:133,5929,935
Singapore171:323,98313,856
Thailand131:5,433,719375,884
United Arab Emirates131:704,79025,221
Germany121:6,708,788223,026
Spain121:3,896,00372,236
Zimbabwe111:1,403,47676,064
Jersey81:12,4002,398
Gibraltar61:5,659991
Papua New Guinea61:1,358,953118,663
Netherlands51:3,377,435111,911
France41:16,605,680368,153
China31:455,773,85521,925
Switzerland31:2,737,638105,941
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Barbados11:287,4482,772
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Macau11:601,6301,582
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England3,8381:6,351979
Wales151:104,5614,503
Jersey51:10,3761,795
Isle of Man41:13,5671,192
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1971:254,91721,039

Pickup (88) may also be a first name.

Pickup 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

A location name in Lancashire.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

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

Pickup Last Name Facts

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

The last name Pickup occurs most in England. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pickup? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 77,592nd most common surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 1,156,203 people. The last name Pickup is mostly found in Europe, where 68 percent of Pickup reside; 67 percent reside in Northern Europe and 67 percent reside in British Isles. Pickup is also the 1,017,994th most frequent first name globally. It is borne by 88 people.

This surname is most frequently held in England, where it is held by 4,038 people, or 1 in 13,798. In England Pickup is mostly found in: Lancashire, where 26 percent reside, Greater Manchester, where 12 percent reside and West Yorkshire, where 8 percent reside. Apart from England this last name occurs in 43 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 16 percent reside and Australia, where 7 percent reside.

Pickup Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Pickup has changed through the years. In England the number of people carrying the Pickup surname grew 105 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it grew 498 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 8,100 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it grew 533 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Pickup Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Pickup surname are 8.53% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 55.3% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Pickup earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 23.58% more than the national average, earning R 293,676 per year; in United States they earn 6.8% less than the national average, earning $40,213 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.4% more than the national average, earning $51,370 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pieckup920/
Pikup914/
Picup910/
Piscup8330/
Picoup831/
Piccup831/
Piekup830/
Piecoup7749/
Piskupe771/
Pukup73136/
Pekup732/
Pikoub67109/
Pecoup6728/
Pecaup671/
Pecupe671/
Peekup670/
Pukohup621/
Petkoup621/
Petchkub574/
Pikob554/
Peekub500/

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