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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a plasterer, from Middle Dutch placke ‘plaster’, ‘whitewash’.
  • German : variant of Plack.
  • German : habitational name from Placke or Placken in Westphalia.

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