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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Aragonese and Catalan : topographic name from the plural of plana ‘big plain’, ‘big plateau’ for someone who lived in a plain area, or habitational name from any of the places called Planas, Catalan Planes (from Latin plana ‘plane’).

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