The surname Plant
A surname, carried by 5,858 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex P453
Origin
An English and French surname, from the noun plant. Also compare Plantier.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,858 people named Plant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 52,705 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,832.
Who is named Plant
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Plant identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Plant has the Soundex code P453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P453.
Questions
- Where does the surname Plant come from?
- An English and French surname, from the noun plant. Also compare Plantier.
- How common is the surname Plant?
- 5,858 people in the United States had the surname Plant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,705 Americans. It ranked 5,890th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Plant?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Plant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Plant getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,832 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,858 in 2010, up 0.4%.