Pickering

13,004 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pickering in the 2020 census, making it the 2,706th most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,000.

By the numbers

People: 13,004
Rank: 2,706th
How common: 1 in 23,000
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Pickering

Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919)American astronomer
Timothy Pickering (1745–1829)American statesman
Bill Pickering (1910–2004)rocket scientist born in New Zealand
Barry Pickering (born 1956)New Zealand association football player, coach and administrator
Adrienne Pickering (born 1981)Australian actress
Thomas R. Pickering (born 1931)American diplomat
Charles Pickering (1805–1878)American anthropologist, botanist, and physician
Craig Pickering (born 1986)English athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Pickering

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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.