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origin
English and Irish: variant spelling of Plunkett.
Plunkett Name Meaning (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. 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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- https://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/pp/pzmisc10.php#top (membership required in order to view without interruption)