Plais Surname
Approximately 600 people bear this surname
Plais Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 522 | 1:127,247 | 19,388 |
| Brazil | 48 | 1:4,459,882 | 118,224 |
| Israel | 11 | 1:777,967 | 50,646 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Plais Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plais Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Plais (Russian: Плаис) is held by more people in France than any other country or territory. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plais? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 536,820th most frequently held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 12,145,910 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Plais live; 87 percent live in Western Europe and 87 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
This last name is most numerous in France, where it is held by 522 people, or 1 in 127,247. In France Plais is most common in: Pays de la Loire, where 29 percent live, Île-de-France, where 25 percent live and Centre-Val de Loire, where 19 percent live. Barring France this surname occurs in 14 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 8 percent live and Israel, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Plais Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Plais in the Russian language | ||
| Плаис | plais | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Plais
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