as a Last Name
- 6,824
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Place
Meaning & Origins
French and English: 1. topographic name for someone who lived in the main market square of a town or village, from Middle English, Old French place (Late Latin platea (via) ‘broad street’, ‘free public open space in a town’). 2. from Middle English, Old French plaise ‘plaice’, ‘flatfish’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or a seller of these fish, or perhaps a nickname for someone thought to resemble a flatfish. 3. topographic name for someone who lived near a quickset fence, from Middle English, Old French pleis (Latin plexum, past participle of plectere ‘to plait or weave’).
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,824
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Place per capita
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