Surname Spotlight: Norkus

People named Norkus share a Lithuanian surname with a long history. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of Norkus, a pet form of Norkantas (wish, suffer)”.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Norkus family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Surname origin

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.

681 Americans were listed as Norkus in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. Research your Norkus family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.