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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name from Middle Low German plas ‘place’, ‘open square’, ‘street’.
  • South German (also Pläss) : from a short form of the medieval personal name Blasius.
  • English : variant of Place 3.

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