# Platt (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/platt/  
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 | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 18,022 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,006 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 17,132 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.9% (18,376 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

English habitational surname from Platt Bridge, from Old French plat (“footbridge”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Platt 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) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Platt in the United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

## People named Platt

- Ben Platt, American actor and singer (born 1993)
- Edward Platt, American actor (1916-1974)
- Marc Platt, American film, television and theatre producer
- Lilly Platt, British environmentalist
- Tara Platt, American actress
- Louise Platt, American actress (1915-2003)
- Marc Platt, American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, and actor (1913-2014)
- Orville H. Platt, American politician (1827-1905)
- Thomas C. Platt, American politician (1833–1910)
- Clarence Platt, American sport shooter
- William Platt, British Army general (1885–1975)
- Nicholas Platt, American diplomat

and 5 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Plata, Plott, Plate, Platte, Paoletti, Pallotta, Plath, Pulido, Polite, Polito, Pouliot, Pollitt.

## 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.