The plaisance Surname
plaisance Name Meaning and History
- from the medieval female personal name Plaisance, meaning ‘pleasantness’, a feminine form of the much rarer personal name Plaisant (present participle of Old French plaire ‘to please’), of common gender.
- habitational name from Piacenza in Italy, Latin name Placentia (see Piacentini).
- habitational name from any of a number of places so called in France. This name is found predominantly in LA.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Plaisance family |
 sleray
| 1 |
| any Plaisance's? |
loveable504
| 0 |
| Beginning Search | Julie Adele Plaisance | 5 |
| Death of Adele Guedry Plaisance, wife of Prosper Plaisance in LA |
cporteous
| 2 |
| Tommy L. Plaisance |
jsn_dt
| 0 |
| Susie Plaisance | Karen Best | 2 |
| Felicie Plaisance | Charles Plaisance | 1 |
| Hazel Plaisance | Ms. JoMel Guidry | 0 |
| baltzar plaisance | sharon stansbury hebert | 26 |
| Baltazar Placentia / Plaisance |
cplaisan
| 3 |
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