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perkes Name Meaning and History

  1. English (West Midlands): variant spelling of Perks.
  2. Jewish (from Ukraine): metronymic from the Yiddish name Perke (a pet form of the female personal name Perl ‘pearl’; see Perel 3) + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

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Distribution of perkes Families in the US in 1920
Number of perkes families
 6-9
 3-5
 1-2
 0
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