Pushkin History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Pushkin

What does the name Pushkin mean?

The name Pushkin is a patronymic surname formed by adding one of the many Russian suffixes, such as "-ov" and "-ovic" to the personal name Pushka, meaning "cannon." This name was likely originally a nickname for a loud, outgoing person, or perhaps an occupational name for a gunner or gunsmith.

Early Origins of the Pushkin family

The surname Pushkin was first found in Russia, where the name was born by members of the population of the Russian Empire.

Early History of the Pushkin family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pushkin research. Another 24 words (2 lines of text) covering the years 1534, 1590, 1632, 1635, 1646, 1649 and 1659 are included under the topic Early Pushkin History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Pushkin Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pushkin, Puschkin, Pushka and others.

Early Notables of the Pushkin family

Boris Pushkin (ca. 1590-1659), a Russian diplomat and officeholder, the head of the Great Embassy to Sweden in 1632-33, in 1649 an envoy to Sweden, a deputy chief of the criminal police department in...

Migration of the Pushkin family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: no found records of Pushkin. However, a Gottfired Pusch came to Pennsylvania in 1749; Christoph Puschek age 37; his wife Anna Rosian Hubsch, and their five children were recorded in America in 1839..

Contemporary Notables of the name Pushkin (post 1700) +

Aleksei Ivanovich Pushkin (1744-1817), Russian count since 1797, statesman, historian and art collector
Vasiliy Lvovich Pushkin (1766-1830), minor Russian poet
Anatoly Pushkin (1915-2002), Soviet aircraft pilot and was decorated "Hero of the Soviet Union"
Alexandr Pushkin (1799-1837), Russian poet and novelist, born into a prosperous family in Moscow. His maternal great grandfather was Abram Hannibal, brought to Russian from Constantinople as an Abyssinian slave, and then became a great favorite of Tsar Peter the Great. In 1881, "The Pushkin Prize" was established by Russian Academy of Sciences