Pigot (surname)

Pigot is an English surname.

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

Derivation and variants

The name Pigot is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.[1]

Pigott, Piggott and Pickett are variant forms.

People with the surname Pigot

• Mary Pigot (daughter of Gervase Pigot), former wife of Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (1640–1716)
• George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (1719–1777), governor of Madras
• British Major General Henry Pigot, in Malta in 1800 for the French surrender
• John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), Irish music collector
• Edward Pigot (1858–1929), Irish/Australian Jesuit priest, seismologist and astronomer
• Robert Pigot (disambiguation), various people
• Hugh Pigot (disambiguation), various people
• Neil Pigot (born 1961), Australian actor
• Spencer Pigot (born 1993), American racing driver

Fictional characters

• Serafine Pigot, a character in the 1997 An American Werewolf in Paris motion picture

See also

• Pigot (disambiguation): other meanings
• Pigott (surname)

References

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