Pickering
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Meaning
English: habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall suggests that this was earlier Picoringas ‘people on the ridge of the pointed hill.’[1]
References
- ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
