Yorks: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Yorks is a branch of the York name tree. Name scholars give the meaning as “From the city of York”.

A variant of York

Yorks adds a patronymic ending to York, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Yourk and Yorke.

The 2010 census count for Yorks in the United States was 715, good for rank 32,236.

Arms associated with the name

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

For the full story, order the Yorks surname pack.