as a Last Name
- 12,890
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Pickering
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall suggests that this was earlier Pīcōringas ‘people on the ridge of the pointed hill’ (see Orr 3 and Pike 1).
| 2,426th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,890
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Pickering per capita
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