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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a maker of plate-armor or armor-plates, from an agent derivative of Middle English plate ‘armor-plate’.
  • English : from an agent derivative of Old French plait ‘plea’ or plaitier ‘to plead’, hence an occupational name or nickname for an advocate.

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