Plunkett

10,358 people in the United States were counted with the surname Plunkett in the 2020 census, making it the 3,378th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,358
Rank: 3,378th
How common: 1 in 28,900
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

From the Norman habitational surname, from the village of Pleugueneuc, in Brittany, said to be from Breton plou (“parish”) (from Latin plebs) + the personal name Guenec, formed from gwenn (“white”). As an Irish surname, it has been Gaelicized in Pluincéid.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Plunkett described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Plunkett

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957)Irish writer and dramatist
Joseph Plunkett (1887–1916)Irish nationalist, poet, journalist and 1916 Easter Rising leader
Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994)American chemist
Oliver Plunkett (1629–1681)Irish archbishop, martyr and saint;
Maryann Plunkett (born 1953)American actress
George Noble Plunkett (1851–1948)Irish politician

People named Plunkett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Plunkett

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.