Pigott (surname)

Last updated February 21, 2025

Pigott and Piggott are English surnames.

The Pigott Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.

Derivation and variants

The name Pigott / Piggott is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is ]unclear. It may stem from the Germanic or Old English pic, a sharply pointed hill, being applied to residents living near such a feature, or could have been used for a tall, thin person as pic could mean a sharp or pointed tool.^[1]^[2] William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.^[3]

Pigot and Pickett are variant forms.

People with the surname Pigott

Donald Pigott (1928–2022), British botanist
Edward Pigott (1753–1825), English astronomer, son of Nathaniel, also an astronomer
Eugene F. Pigott Jr. (born 1946), American jurist
Florence Pigott (died 1899), English operatic singer and ballet dancer
Francis Pigott (1665–1704), English composer
Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant (1810–1863), British politician
Fred Pigott (1895–1979), British mountaineer
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013), Australian potter
Jean Pigott (1924–2012), Canadian politician
Jean Sophia Pigott (1845–1882), Irish poet
Joe Pigott (born 1993), English footballer
John Pigott (c. 1550 – by 1627), English politician
Marjorie Pigott (1904–1990), Canadian artist
Mark Pigott (born 1954), American businessman
Mostyn Pigott (1865–1927), English humorist, writer and barrister
Nathaniel Pigott (1725–1804), English astronomer
Nick Pigott (born 1951), British editor of The Railway Magazine
Richard Pigott (1835–1889), Irish journalist and forger
Stuart Pigott (born 1960), British wine critic
Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017), British actor
Tony Pigott (born 1958), English cricketer
William Pigott (1839–1909), English-born Zimbabwean politician
William Trigg Pigott (1860–1944), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court

People with the surname Piggott

Derek Piggott (1922–2019), British glider pilot
Emeline Piggott (1836–1919), Confederate States of America spy
Francis Taylor Piggott (1852–1925), British jurist and scholar of Japan
Jim Piggott, Canadian ice hockey player, after whom the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy is named
Joan R. Piggott (born 1947), American historian
Lester Piggott (1935–2022), British jockey
Marcus Piggott, Welsh fashion photographer
Pércival Piggott (born 1966), Panamanian footballer
Patrick Piggott (1915–1990), English composer, pianist and musicologist
Rosslynd Piggott (born 1958), Australian installation artist and painter
Stuart Piggott (1910–1996), British archaeologist
Tracy Piggott (born 1966), British jockey and broadcaster working in Ireland, daughter of Lester Piggott
Victor Herrera Piggott (born 1980), Panamanian footballer
William Roy Piggott (1914–2008), British scientist

Fictional characters

Owd Grandad Piggott, character on BBC Radio Stoke
William Piggott, minor character in Quality Street, 1964

References

↑ "Pigot History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms". House of Names. January 2000. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
↑ "Pigot". SurnameDB. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
↑ Pickett and Pigott in A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames: with special American instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, London, 1901.

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[1] "Pigot History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms". House of Names. January 2000. Retrieved 13 July 2022.

[2] "Pigot". SurnameDB. Retrieved 13 July 2022.

[3] Pickett and Pigott in A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames: with special American instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, London, 1901.

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