Plaisir Surname

120,492nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,805 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Haiti
Highest density in:
Haiti

Plaisir Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plaisir Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Haiti2,8671:3,727493
Chad3851:35,3044,109
United States2101:1,725,995114,113
France1731:383,94656,838
DR Congo551:1,343,26579,223
Brazil311:6,905,624162,221
Canada311:1,188,56786,017
Belgium171:676,27358,718
Russia91:16,013,673414,297
Germany81:10,063,182283,807
Dominican Republic41:2,608,23320,941
Rwanda41:2,841,2443,611
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Benin11:10,335,602103,742
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Plaisir (653) may also be a first name.

Plaisir Last Name Facts

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

The surname Plaisir is held by more people in Haiti than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Plaisir.

How Common Is The Last Name Plaisir? popularity and diffusion

Plaisir is the 120,492nd most commonly occurring family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 1,915,255 people. The last name Plaisir occurs mostly in The Americas, where 83 percent of Plaisir are found; 76 percent are found in Caribbean and 76 percent are found in Gallo-Caribbean. Plaisir is also the 324,981st most numerous first name on earth It is held by 653 people.

The surname is most widespread in Haiti, where it is carried by 2,867 people, or 1 in 3,727. In Haiti Plaisir is most prevalent in: Ouest, where 44 percent reside, Artibonite, where 31 percent reside and Nord, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Haiti it exists in 22 countries. It is also common in Chad, where 10 percent reside and The United States, where 6 percent reside.

Plaisir Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Plaisir has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Plaisir surname expanded 21,000 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Plaisir Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Plaisir are 43.83% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 97.06% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Plaisir earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 13.6% more than the national average, earning $49,019 USD per year and in Canada they earn 27.52% less than the national average, earning $36,008 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 Plaisir
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