Pinckney Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Seen on a gravestone or a census line, Pinckney usually leads back to Pinkney. Taken at its root, Pinckney points to “Someone from Picquigny in France”.

• Before spelling was fixed, Pinkney was also written Pinckney.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Pinckney ranked 5,147 in the 2010 US Census, with 6,800 people answering to the name.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Pinkney and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Pinckney report, with a museum-style coat of arms.