Family name origins & meanings
- English and French : metonymic occupational name for a gardener, in particular someone with a herb garden, from Middle English plant (Old English plante), Old French plante ‘herb’, ‘shrub’, ‘young tree’. In English it may also be a nickname for a tender or delicate individual, from the same word in a transferred sense.
- French : topographic name for a planted area, in particular one planted with herbs or vines. Compare Plantier.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.