Platt

At the 2020 census, 20,052 Americans bore the surname Platt — 1,742nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,900.

By the numbers

People: 20,052
Rank: 1,742nd
How common: 1 in 14,900
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

English habitational surname from Platt Bridge, from Old French plat (“footbridge”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.2%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Platt

Oliver Platt (born 1960)Canadian-born American actor
David Platt (born 1966)English footballer and manager
Ben Platt (born 1993)American actor and singer
Edward Platt (1916–1974)American actor
Marc Platt (born 1957)American film, television and theatre producer
Lilly Platt (born 2008)British environmentalist
Geoff Platt (born 1985)Canadian ice hockey player
Tara Platt (born 1978)American actress

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

Surnames like Platt

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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.