Worldwide, พลาเดช (พลาเดช 
, Phaladej ) is a very rare principally male, but scarcely female first name. The first name พลาเดช is characteristic of South-eastern Asia, particularly Thailand, where it is a very rare principally boy's, but very infrequently feminine name. Very seldom, พลาเดช is the last name as well as the forename.