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The surname Plascencia

A Spanish surname, carried by 8,710 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P425

Plascencia: #4,079 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Plascencia #4,079, 8,710 people Plascencia: #4,079 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Plascencia #4,079, 8,710 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Plascencia is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Plascencia.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,710 people named Plascencia in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,447 Americans. That is up 49% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,846.

#4,079
rank among US surnames
8,710
people in 2010
3.0
per 100,000 Americans
+49%
change since 2000 (was #5,469)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#4,075Foltz8,71435,431
#4,076Santoro8,71335,435
#4,078Lanning8,71135,443
#4,079Plascencia8,71035,447

Who is named Plascencia

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

98% of people named Plascencia identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 2.0% as white (not Hispanic).

  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 98%
  • White (not Hispanic) 2.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
  • Two or more races 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Plascencia

Plascencia has the Soundex code P425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P425.

Other Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Plascencia come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Plascencia.
How common is the surname Plascencia?
8,710 people in the United States had the surname Plascencia in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,447 Americans. It ranked 4,079th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Plascencia?
In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Plascencia identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 2.0% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Plascencia getting more or less common?
More common. 5,846 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,710 in 2010, up 49%.