as a Last Name
- 6,019
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Plank
Meaning & Origins
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.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,019
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Plank per capita
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