How common is the surname Placek?

1,133 people in the United States had the surname Placek in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Placek?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Placek identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Placek getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,178 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, down 3.8%.

The surname Placek

A Polish surname, carried by 1,133 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P422

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Placek is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Placek and Czech Plaček.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,133 people named Placek in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. That is down 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,178.

#22,646

rank among US surnames

1,133

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-3.8%

change since 2000 (was #20,831)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#22,637	Prato	1,134	272,262
#22,646	DiVincenzo	1,133	272,503

Who is named Placek

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Placek identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Placek

Placek has the Soundex code P422, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P422.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Placek come from?: Borrowed from Polish Placek and Czech Plaček.
How common is the surname Placek?: 1,133 people in the United States had the surname Placek in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Placek?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Placek identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Placek getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,178 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, down 3.8%.