Pico Family History
Pico Name Meaning
Spanish Portuguese and Galician: topographic name for someone who lived by a peak from pico ‘(mountain) peak’ or a habitational name from a place called with this word (Pico in Galicia El Pico in Asturias). Compare Galician Dopico . Spanish Portuguese and Galician: from pico ‘beak’ a nickname for someone who had a prominent pointed nose. Catalan (Picó): probably a nickname from picó ‘having a thick upper lip’. Italian: from the personal name Pico (from Latin Picus from picus ‘woodpecker’). Italian: nickname from pico ‘woodpecker’ or southern dialect picu ‘(pick)axe’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022