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    The surname Plater

    A surname, carried by 1,063 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P436

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Plater is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,063 people named Plater in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,447 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,072.

    #23,785
    rank among US surnames
    1,063
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #22,403)

    Who is named Plater

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

    72% of people named Plater identified as Black (not Hispanic), 22% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 72%
    • White (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Two or more races 4.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Plater

    Plater has the Soundex code P436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P436.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Plater?
    1,063 people in the United States had the surname Plater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,447 Americans. It ranked 23,785th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Plater?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Plater identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 22% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Plater getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,072 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,063 in 2010, down 0.8%.