English: habitational name from any of various places, for example
in Cheshire and North Yorkshire, so called from Old English
pic ‘point’, ‘peak’ (or the derived byname Pica) +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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