The plank Surname
plank Name Meaning and History
- English (chiefly Berkshire): from Middle English planke ‘plank’ (Late Latin planca). It is not clear how this word was applied as a surname: it may be a topographic name for someone who lived near a plank bridge over a stream, a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, or a nickname for a thin person.
- North German: nickname for a cantankerous person, from Middle Low German plank ‘quarrel’, ‘discord’.
- North German: metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German plank ‘measure for liquids’.
- South German: topographic name from Middle High German plank ‘plank’, ‘palisade’.
- South German: nickname for a fair-haired person, from a variant of Middle High German blanc ‘light’, ‘shining’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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 JIWelsch
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| Missing child given up for addoption in Mich.--Plank |
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| Roxanne Plank | me | 1 |
| Plank family of Wiltshire, England |
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| CRAIG PLANK family | MP Meekins | 29 |
| Christian Benedict Plank | Donna Hartleb | 16 |
| Elvira PLANK B.1807 m. Christian B. Plank | Donna Hartleb | 6 |
| Nancy Plank (1815 - 1884) |
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| Julia Plank b.1904 MO |
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| Anton Plank |
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