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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname for a plain, simple man (either unpretentious or simple-minded), from Old French plain, Latin planus ‘plain’, ‘flat’, ‘straightforward’.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Bohemia (Czech name Planina).

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