Picton
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English
Etymology
From either the Old English personal name Pīca or pīc (“point, peak, pinnacle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Picton (countable and uncountable, plural Pictons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4107).
- A hamlet in Mickle Trafford parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4371).
- A former civil parish of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, now part of Mickle Trafford parish.
- A ward of Liverpool, Merseyside, Lancashire, England.
- A small town in Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Picton.
- A suburb of the City of Bunbury, Western Australia.
- A town and ferry port in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand.
- An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Picton is the 54296th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 380 individuals. Picton is most common among White (88.95%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Picton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.