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The surname Plotner

A surname, carried by 1,282 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P435

Plotner: #20,648 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Plotner #20,648, 1,282 people Plotner: #20,648 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Plotner #20,648, 1,282 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Plotner is more common than 87.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,282 people named Plotner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 240,831 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,259.

#20,648
rank among US surnames
1,282
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+1.8%
change since 2000 (was #19,784)

Who is named Plotner

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

94% of people named Plotner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Plotner

Plotner has the Soundex code P435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P435.

Questions

How common is the surname Plotner?
1,282 people in the United States had the surname Plotner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 240,831 Americans. It ranked 20,648th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Plotner?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Plotner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Plotner getting more or less common?
More common. 1,259 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,282 in 2010, up 1.8%.