Plaisant Surname

245,904th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,618 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Plaisant Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plaisant Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France1,1481:57,8607,736
Belgium1411:81,53612,817
Brazil1041:2,058,40765,034
Italy661:926,61667,608
Mexico551:2,256,84019,878
United States261:13,940,728505,428
Germany231:3,500,237154,763
Canada131:2,834,276161,175
Argentina81:5,342,927168,491
England61:9,286,343223,652
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
Haiti41:2,670,97716,453
Czechia41:2,658,367127,801
Netherlands31:5,629,059132,535
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Switzerland21:4,106,458122,336
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
New Caledonia11:276,22310,363
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States191:2,643,089124,494

Plaisant Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Plaisant Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Plaisant has its highest incidence in France. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Plaisant click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Plaisant? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 245,904th most widespread last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 4,504,046 people. The surname Plaisant is predominantly found in Europe, where 85 percent of Plaisant live; 80 percent live in Western Europe and 77 percent live in Gallo-Europe.

The last name Plaisant is most widely held in France, where it is held by 1,148 people, or 1 in 57,860. In France Plaisant is most prevalent in: Hauts-de-France, where 34 percent live, Île-de-France, where 21 percent live and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 9 percent live. Besides France Plaisant occurs in 23 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 9 percent live and Brazil, where 6 percent live.

Plaisant Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Plaisant has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Plaisant surname expanded 137 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Plaisant Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Plaisant earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 21.93% less than the national average, earning $33,688 USD per year and in Canada they earn 16.03% more than the national average, earning $57,647 CAD per year.

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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 Plaisant
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