Picard

At the 2020 census, 7,372 Americans bore the surname Picard — 4,666th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,372
Rank: 4,666th
How common: 1 in 40,500
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From Picardy, region of northern France.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Picard described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Picard

Charles Émile Picard (1856–1941)French mathematician
Jean Picard (1620–1682)French astronomer
Rosalind Picard (born 1962)American computer scientist
François Picard (1921–1996)French racing driver
Edmond Picard (1836–1924)Belgian jurist, writer
Max Picard (1888–1965)Swiss writer
Geoffrey Picard (1943–2002)American rower
Ernest Picard (1821–1877)French lawyer and politician

People named Picard with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Picard

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.