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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French plat ‘flat’ (Late Latin plat(t)us, from Greek platys ‘broad’, ‘flat’).
  • German : variant of Plate 1.
  • German : topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle High German plate ‘plateau’, ‘rock wall’.

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