Pick

• English:/pɪk/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• German:/pɪk/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Pick is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English73%

  ‘pickaxe-maker’ or ‘someone who works with a pickaxe’; or a Jewish name of unknown origin.

  as a name·Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  v., sdngba, ngé- ngéla ; pick out, htiwoyo; pick up, ngoyo; picked

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

• German11%

  singular imperative of picken

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  P-Variante zu Bick; Über- oder Berufsname zu mhd./mnd. bic/pic oder zum Verb 'stechen'; 1,559 Tokens.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Pick is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, a dick (penis)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Frank Pickb. 1878GBBritish transport administrator
• Lupu Pickb. 1886ROactor, film director (1886–1931)
• Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslarb. 1928DEfue la mejor amiga de Anelis Marie Frank mas conocida como Ana frank (1928–2022)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Pick mean, and where does it come from?

‘pickaxe-maker’ or ‘someone who works with a pickaxe’; or a Jewish name of unknown origin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Pick?

It depends on the language: in English /pɪk/ (Wiktionary); in German /pɪk/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Pick?

In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Pick, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pick. After it come Brazil, Poland, Czechia and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Pick most common?

Pick is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 97 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Pick?

In the United States, the national register counted 3,442 people named Pick in 2010, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.