Plunket: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Plunkett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Plunket

If your family name is Plunket, its origin lies with Plunkett, a long-established Irish surname. The name is generally explained as “Anglo-Norman family”.

Without the “t” of Plunkett, Plunket is a simpler written form of the same name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The 2010 US Census counted 277 people named Plunket, ranking it number 70,645 among American surnames.

Get the complete Plunket report, with a museum-style coat of arms.