# Plath (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,553 |
| US rank (2010) | 17,980 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 198,806 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.5% (1,458 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Plath 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) | 93% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Plath in the United States.

## People named Plath

- Sylvia Plath, American poet and writer (1932–1963)

## Similar surnames

Platt, Plata, Plate, Platte, Pulido, Polite, Polito, Plott, Pouliot, Pollitt, Pelt, Pellot.

## 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.