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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (West Midlands) : variant spelling of Perks.
  • Jewish (from Ukraine) : metronymic from the Yiddish name Perke (a pet form of the female personal name Perl ‘pearl’; see Perel 3) + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

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