Plank Family History
Plank Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Plank
Name Distribution of Plank Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Plank families
 106 - 210  36 - 105 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Plank families
|
76 - 149 26 - 75 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Plank families
|
16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Plank Family Origin
Plank Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Plank
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Plank Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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