Plessy Surname
Approximately 841 people bear this surname
Plessy Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 670 | 1:99,138 | 14,509 |
| United States | 73 | 1:4,965,191 | 254,179 |
| Haiti | 49 | 1:218,039 | 8,036 |
| Mexico | 16 | 1:7,757,888 | 35,569 |
| Belgium | 13 | 1:884,357 | 69,774 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:2,643,089 | 124,494 |
Plessy (39) may also be a first name.
Plessy Demographics
Average Plessy Salary in
United States
$52,078 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Plessy Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plessy Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Plessy (Arabic: بليسي) is more frequently found in France than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Plessy? popularity and diffusion
It is the 414,183rd most commonly used family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 8,665,334 people. The last name Plessy is primarily found in Europe, where 82 percent of Plessy live; 81 percent live in Western Europe and 81 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Plessy is also the 1,637,361st most frequently used forename at a global level. It is borne by 39 people.
This surname is most commonly held in France, where it is held by 670 people, or 1 in 99,138. In France Plessy is most common in: Grand Est, where 21 percent live, Île-de-France, where 16 percent live and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, where 13 percent live. Excluding France this last name is found in 16 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 9 percent live and Haiti, where 6 percent live.
Plessy Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Plessy has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Plessy last name expanded 384 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Plessy Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Plessy are 30.15% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 76.92% registered with the political party.
Plessy earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 20.69% more than the national average, earning $52,078 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Plessy Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Plessy in the Arabic language | ||
| بليسي | blysy | - |
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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 Plessy
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