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Cowboys and Cowgirls: Bill Pickett
Bill

Name origin: English and German

Name meaning: from a Germanic personal name, either a short form of compound names such as Billard, or else a byname Bill(a), from Old English bil ‘sword’, ‘halberd’ (or a Continental cognate). (Bill as a short form of William was not used until the 17th century.)

 
Pickett

Name origin: English

Name meaning: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Picot, Pigot, a pet form of Pic (see Pike 6). In Middle English, the form Piket (Old French Picquet) was also common.

 
 
 
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