Pleités Surname

11,742,229th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Costa Rica
Highest density in:
Costa Rica

Pleités Surname User-submission:

This surname comes from the Spanish word pleités, which means 'person who mediates between two or more people to compose their disagreements'.

In Russian, the word means 'finger'.

For some reason yet to be known, this last name is highly common in El Salvador and through migration is that the name has been able to locate itself in different countries.

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Pleités Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Pleites (1,193) are calculated separately.

Pleités Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

This surname comes from the Spanish word pleités, which means 'person who mediates between two or more people to compose their disagreements'.

In Russian, the word means 'finger'.

For some reason yet to be known, this last name is highly common in El Salvador and through migration is that the name has been able to locate itself in different countries.

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Pleités Last Name Facts

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

The surname Pleités is carried by more people in Costa Rica than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Pleites. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pleités? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 11,742,229th most frequent surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. It is predominantly found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Pleités are found; 50 percent are found in Central America and 50 percent are found in Hispano-Central America.

This surname is most numerous in Costa Rica, where it is held by 1 people, or 1 in 4,780,069. Other than Costa Rica Pleités exists in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 50 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pleites951,193/
Pleitéz861/
Pleistes801/
Pleities801/
Pleite77625/
Pletes7744/
Pleita774/
Plitis772/
Pletis771/
Pletitsch7532/
Pleitez717,299/
Pleiter71834/
Plaitis71283/
Pleijte71192/
Plestis7181/
Pleytes7148/
Plateis7118/
Platets7110/
Pliotis718/
Plettes715/
Plaites713/
Plestys712/
Plestes712/
Pleitiz712/
Pleyiti711/
Plithis711/
Pleitèz711/
Pleetes711/
Pleitee711/
Plete67972/
Pleta67337/
Pleti67127/
Plita67101/
Pleister6794/
Plite6759/
Pleijter6759/
Plety6721/
Pliti6715/
Platteis6714/
Platé6711/
Plity675/
Pleshtis673/
Plaitais671/
Pleitter671/
Pletesch671/
Plateisz671/
Pfleiter670/

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