Pulkkinen Family History
Pulkkinen Name Meaning
Finnish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Fulco (see Volk ) or the cognate Finnish loanword pulkka ‘group of people’ + the surname suffix -nen. It is on record as a hereditary surname since the Middle Ages in eastern Finland from where it spread early to central and northern Finland and Ostrobothnia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022