Plato Surname
Approximately 3,946 people bear this surname
Plato Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,311 | 1:276,475 | 25,849 |
| Germany | 363 | 1:221,778 | 24,859 |
| South Africa | 330 | 1:164,175 | 18,364 |
| Canada | 308 | 1:119,629 | 12,601 |
| Guatemala | 168 | 1:95,730 | 2,882 |
| Poland | 162 | 1:234,622 | 30,119 |
| Israel | 159 | 1:53,822 | 7,013 |
| Sweden | 148 | 1:66,532 | 5,074 |
| Panama | 110 | 1:35,566 | 1,963 |
| England | 109 | 1:511,175 | 32,340 |
| Iran | 99 | 1:775,581 | 39,259 |
| Russia | 85 | 1:1,695,565 | 111,577 |
| New Zealand | 73 | 1:62,032 | 9,583 |
| Liberia | 64 | 1:68,883 | 5,877 |
| Suriname | 51 | 1:10,836 | 2,716 |
| Netherlands | 44 | 1:383,799 | 41,363 |
| Estonia | 38 | 1:34,784 | 6,408 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | 29 | 1:202 | 43 |
| Denmark | 29 | 1:194,645 | 16,083 |
| Spain | 27 | 1:1,731,557 | 49,506 |
| Australia | 24 | 1:1,124,821 | 62,883 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 18 | 1:75,776 | 5,658 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1:14,271,622 | 267,944 |
| India | 15 | 1:51,137,692 | 512,385 |
| Ukraine | 13 | 1:3,501,746 | 189,921 |
| Serbia | 11 | 1:649,541 | 22,440 |
| Latvia | 8 | 1:256,256 | 23,728 |
| Colombia | 8 | 1:5,971,759 | 20,087 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Guyana | 6 | 1:127,037 | 7,965 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| Turkey | 5 | 1:15,564,284 | 149,633 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 5 | 1:22,532 | 985 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Montserrat | 2 | 1:2,474 | 299 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1:442,438 | 9,493 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Falkland Islands | 1 | 1:3,132 | 317 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 41 | 1:594,521 | 30,269 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 305 | 1:164,651 | 14,949 |
The alternate forms: Platô (2) are calculated separately.
Plato (1,139) may also be a first name.
Plato Demographics
Plato Political Affiliation
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Plato Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plato Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Plato (Georgian: პლატო, Hindi: प्लाटो, Russian: Плато) has its highest incidence in The United States. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Platô. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plato? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 116,772nd most widely held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 1,846,819 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 51 percent of Plato live; 41 percent live in North America and 41 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 235,856th most frequently used forename throughout the world, held by 1,139 people.
It is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 1,311 people, or 1 in 276,475. In The United States it is most numerous in: California, where 13 percent reside, Wisconsin, where 9 percent reside and New York, where 8 percent reside. Aside from The United States it occurs in 77 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 9 percent reside and South Africa, where 8 percent reside.
Plato Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Plato has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Plato surname rose 430 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 266 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Plato Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Plato last name are 21.29% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 68.06% registered with the party.
The amount Plato earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 1484.48% more than the national average, earning S/. 307,152 per year; in South Africa they earn 36.47% less than the national average, earning R 150,972 per year; in Colombia they earn 7.85% more than the national average, earning $24,485,200 COP per year; in United States they earn 1.66% more than the national average, earning $43,864 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.71% more than the national average, earning $51,524 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Plato Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Plato in the Georgian language | ||
| პლატო | plato | - |
| Plato in the Hindi language | ||
| प्लाटो | plato | - |
| Plato in the Russian language | ||
| Плато | plato | - |
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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 Plato
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