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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Czech (Platnéř) : occupational name for an armorer (see Blattner).
  • English : occupational name for a plate maker, from a Middle English agent derivative of Old French platon ‘metal plate’. Compare Platten.

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