Pinkert Family History
- Pinkert Name Meaning
- German: metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, from Low German pinken ‘to strike sparks from a stone or metal’. German: from Pinker, a personal name of uncertain origin. Dutch: from a derivative of Middle Dutch pinken ‘to twinkle’, a nickname for someone who was in the habit of winking or blinking, or possibly had a squint. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental adoption of the German surname, probably because of its similarity to the Yiddish personal name Pinkhes (see Pincus).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,964 Historical Documents with Pinkert on Ancestry
- 7,776 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,550 Census and Voter Lists
- 617 Military Records
- 501 Immigration Records
- 3,520 Member Trees
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Number of Pinkert families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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