Plant

Plant is the 5,998th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,526 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 54,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,526
Rank: 5,998th
How common: 1 in 54,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

An English and French surname, from the noun plant. Also compare Plantier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Plant described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 10.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Plant

Robert Plant (born 1948)English musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin
Sadie Plant (born 1964)British writer

People named Plant with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Plant

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.