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The platt Surname

platt Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Platt or Platt Bridge in Lancashire, named in Middle English with Old French plat ‘flat’, ‘thin’ (see Platte), in the dialect sense ‘plank bridge’.
  2. English: topographic name from Middle English plat ‘plot of land’, ‘piece of ground’ (Old English plætt).
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German platt ‘flat’.
  4. German: variant of Platte 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of platt Families in the US in 1920
Number of platt families
 260-518
 87-259		 1-86
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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