Picaud: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Start with the numbers and the Picaud surname comes into focus. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Picaud line back. No reliable dictionary entry explains Picaud, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors.

Between 1891 and 2000, 4,615 babies born in France were registered as Picaud, with the most births in 1961–1970. There were 206 such births in the 1890s and 415 in the 1990s.

Sharing the Picaud name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Want more than a summary? See the Picaud family name pack.