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Pickering
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Origin Of The Surname Pickering
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Meaning Of The Surname Pickering
From the Town on the Point of the Hill |
Interesting
Facts About
Pickering
Pickering is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself is made up of the Old English elements ‘pic’ meaning the point on a hill, ‘ora’ meaning the edge, and the suffix ‘ing’ which gives the name the people ‘people living at the point of the hill’. |
Pickering Statistics
Pickering is the number 1759 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,144 share the surname Pickering in the UK.
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