Picard Family History
Picard Name Meaning
French Walloon Catalan and German; Breton (also Le Picard): from Old French and Catalan picard ‘Picard’ a habitational name for someone from Picardy in northern France. This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium. Compare Pecore . French: in some cases probably also from pic ‘pick pike’ + the pejorative suffix -ard applied as a nickname for e.g. a user of a pointed tool. English (of Norman origin): variant of Pickard mostly a cognate of 1 above. Jewish (western Ashkenazic): Frenchified form of German Bickhart .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022