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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle Low German plack, Middle High German placke, pflacke ‘scrap’, ‘patch (of material)’, ‘small plot (of land)’; probably a metonymic occupational name for a cobbler or a tailor who mended clothes, or a topographic name for someone living on a small piece of (flat) land.

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