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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a blacksmith, or for a small and lively or irritable individual, from Middle High German vunke ‘spark’.
  • Between 1709 and 1772 nine families bearing this name emigrated to America. Most noted was Heinrich Funck from the Palatinate, who came to PA in 1719. In the 18th century there were Funks in Ephrata, PA.

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