Last name: PIDGEON
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PIDGEON : This last name is indexed 16,589 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PIDGEON : 1: English: nickname from Old French and Middle English pigun pijoun pigeon ‘young bird; dove pigeon’ perhaps used as a term of affection or to denote someone easily fooled.2: Irish (Dublin): irregular shortened and reinterpreted Anglicized form of Irish Mac Guagáin see McGuigan.3: Altered form of French Pigeon.
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