# Plaskett (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/plaskett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 570 |
| US rank (2010) | 38,754 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 541,659 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.6% (540 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Topographic surname from Old French plasquet, a diminutive of plascq (“damp meadow”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Plaskett in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 67% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 24% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.0% |
| Two or more races | 3.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Plaskett in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Plaskett

- Stacey Plaskett, American politician (born 1966)
- James Plaskett, British chess player

## Similar surnames

Plaster, Plaisted, Polston, Polster, Placido.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.