Pinsky Family Name and Heraldry

The Pinsky last name has Russian roots. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Pinsk (foam), in Byelorussia”. Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from. The name also appears as Pinsker and Pinski.

Pinsky ranked 25,332 in the 2010 US Census, with 977 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

Sharing the Pinsky name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Research your Pinsky family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.