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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Tyrol, Bavaria) : from platte ‘ledge’ (genitive platten) + -er suffix of habitation, hence a topographic name denoting someone who lived at a farm on a mountain ledge.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Platner.

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