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pigeon Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from pigeon ‘pigeon’ (Old French pijon ‘young bird’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons, or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds are easily taken.
  2. In some cases, an altered form of French PetitJean.
  3. English: variant spelling of Pidgeon.

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pigeon Family Facts

Distribution of pigeon Families in the US in 1920
Number of pigeon families
 28-54
 10-27
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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