Picken Family History
Picken Name Meaning
English and Scottish (of Norman origin): either a nickname from Old French picon ‘woodpecker’ or a patronymic from the Old French personal name Picon apparently a transferred use of Old French picon ‘point pointed object’ as a nickname. Compare Pickett and Pike . The Scottish surname (first recorded in 1615 in Edinburgh) was taken to Ireland where in 1796 it is recorded as Picken in Antrim and Pickens in Cavan. See Pickens . German: probably a variant of Pick 1 or
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022