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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : habitational name from Platania in Catanzaro province.
  • Southern Italian and Greek (Platanias) topographic name for someone living in the main square of a town, an open space where plane trees grow, from medieval Greek platani ‘plane tree’ (ancient Greek platanos).

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