10,155 Global Pickard Family Members

Pickard Family History

Recorded in many spelling forms including Pickard (England), Picard, Piccard, Piquard, and Picart (France), Picardi, Picardo and Piccardo, (Italy), Pikard and Pikhardt (Germany), this is a surname of two possible origins, both French. It can be locational and refer to someone from the region of Picardy in Northern France, or it can be derived from a French personal name compounded of the elements "Pic -hard" with the strange translation of "sharp and hardy", From this form developed the variant surname of Pitcher.