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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van den Plas) : from Middle Dutch plas ‘puddle’, ‘pool’, ‘plash’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a dip in a road, which filled up with water in wet weather.
  • Possibly French : habitational name from places so called in the Ardèche and Corrèze.

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