What We Know About the Purkey Surname

If you carry the Purkey surname, the numbers below show how often it is found. Purkey is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name.

Heraldry and the Purkey name

Sharing the Purkey name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname origin

A family Bible, a parish register or an emigration record often gives the first firm date for a Purkey ancestor. The meaning of Purkey is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

In the 2010 US Census, 2,329 Americans gave Purkey as their last name (rank 13,142). Want more than a summary? See the Purkey family name pack.