Plunkett Family History
Plunkett Name Meaning
English and Irish (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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022