Find out how popular the last name Piqué is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Piqué.

Piqué, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Piqué surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Piqué in America

Piqué is the 58735th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Piqué surname appeared 345 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Piqué.

We can also compare 2010 data for Piqué to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Piqué

The surname Pique originated from the Catalan region of Spain in the early medieval period. It is thought to derive from the Old Catalan word "pica," meaning a pickaxe or sharp pointed tool used for breaking rocks. This likely referred to an early ancestor's occupation as a stoneworker or quarryman.

One of the earliest recorded examples of the Pique name appears in the Catalonian Fogatge tax records from 1365, listing a "Pere Pique" residing in Barcelona. The name is also found in the Castilian census records from the late 15th century after the unification of Spain, suggesting some migration of Catalan families to other regions.

In the 16th century, the Pique surname spread further across Europe as merchants and artisans traveled for work. A notable early bearer was Alonso Pique, a Spanish architect born in 1508 who designed several churches and palaces in Andalusia. Around the same time, records show a Jean Pique living in Brittany, France in the 1560s.

During the Age of Exploration, some Piques joined the Spanish colonies in the Americas. Hernán Pique, born in 1587 in Seville, became one of the first settlers in Nueva España (now Mexico) in the early 1600s. Another Pique, Pedro, traveled to Peru in 1621 and worked as a silversmith in Cusco.

Back in Europe, the surname continued appearing across Spain, France and parts of Italy over the following centuries. A famous military leader was Marshal Miguel Pique, born in Barcelona in 1768, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and later governed Catalonia. Other notables include the Italian painter Francesco Pique (1797-1854) and the French poet Claudine Pique (1915-2003).

While most common in Spain, Catalonia and southern France, the Pique name can also be found across Latin America due to Spanish influence, as well as in other regions reflecting the global migration of peoples over the centuries. Yet its origins trace back to medieval Catalonia and the skilled workers who shaped rock with their pickaxes.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Piqué

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Piqué.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Piqué was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Piqué has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Piqué was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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