Planté

Locally spelled Plante in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Planté is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• French93%

  past participle of planter

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish5.1%

  first-person singular preterite indicative of plantar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Planté is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Plante

• Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom

  Also written Plante

• Russian surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Plante, Планте

• Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

  Also written Plante

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Planté is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Asturian, first-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of plantar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Joseph-Bernard Plantéb. 1768CACanadian politician (1768-1826)
• Gaston Plantéb. 1834FRFrench physicist
• Adrien Plantéb. 1841FRFrench historian, politician and felibre (1841-1912)
• Gilbert Plantéb. 1941FRFrench association football player (1941-2010)
• Didier Planteb. 1958FRFrench politician
• Violaine Planté-BordeneuveFRresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Planté come from?

first-person singular preterite indicative of plantar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What does the name Planté mean?

In French, past participle of planter

In which country does Planté have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Planté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plante.

How common is the name Planté?

In the United States, the national register counted 7,744 people named Planté in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.