Pinsker

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pinsker, a Jewish Ashkenazi habitational surname for someone from Pinsk, in Belarus.

Proper noun

Pinsker (plural Pinskers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pinsker is the 56972^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 358 individuals. Pinsker is most common among White (96.93%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pinsker”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.