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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