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pless Name Meaning and History

East German (of Slavic origin): habitational name from any of various places named with the Slavic element pleso ‘swamp’, for example Pless in Upper Silesia.

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Distribution of pless Families in the US in 1920
Number of pless families
 23-43
 8-22
 1-7
 0
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