Family name origins & meanings
- French : southern variant of Pigeon.
- French : metonymic occupational name from a diminutive of Old French pic ‘pick’. Compare Pike 3.
- French : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from pichon ‘jug’, ‘pitcher’.
- French : nickname from pichon ‘little’.
- Spanish (Pichón) : from a term of endearment, pichón ‘little dove’.
- The name is rare in Canada; in the U.S. it is concentrated around the Great Lakes and in LA.