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View Surname: Plank


PLANK
SOURCE: Nickname
USAGE: German, English
Meaning & History
Means "plank" from the Latin plancus. This could have referred to a person who lived by a plank bridge over a stream, someone who was as thin as a board or a carpenter.
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