Plante

6,790 people in the United States were counted with the surname Plante in the 2020 census, making it the 5,009th most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,790
Rank: 5,009th
How common: 1 in 44,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

As a French surname, from French Plante, from the noun plante.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Plante

Jacques Plante (1929–1986)Canadian ice hockey player
Gaston Planté (1834–1889)French physicist
Laura La Plante (1904–1996)American actress
Lynda La Plante (born 1943)English writer and actress
Francis Planté (1839–1934)French pianist

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

Surnames like Plante

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.