Family name origins & meanings
- French : from pigeon ‘pigeon’ (Old French pijon ‘young bird’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons, or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds are easily taken.
- In some cases, an altered form of French PetitJean.
- English : variant spelling of Pidgeon.
- A person from Paris with the name Pigeon is documented in Montreal in 1662. Another is recorded with the secondary surname Petitjean.