as a Last Name
- 10,205
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Plunkett
Meaning & Origins
English and Irish: 1. (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid. 2. alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of blankets, from Middle English blaunket (Anglo-Norman French blancquet, a diminutive of blanc ‘white’), but replacement of b by p is not usual in English.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,205
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Plunkett per capita
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