Ple
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ple is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 202K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Plé in BE Belgium.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
$ adj. 1. (16 B VI 88) ; Oprea (Sur VII) ; Roman (16 A III 299) ; -u (Dm). 2. Mesa b. (Dm ; C $tef ; Mot) ; munt., 1780 (BCI XIII 187) si s. ; mosn., 1610 (AO XV 62) ; Plesescui (Dm) ; Bratu, mold. (RI I 271) ; Plesesti s. 3. Plesan fam. ($tef) ; -u (Dm) ; -ul, 1. ($tef) ; s. ; Pleseni razes' ($tef). 4. Plesoe, Drag. (17 B II 385) ; Plesoiu s. 5. Plesinfi s. (Dm). 6. Plesuvul b. (17 B II 228) < subst. plesuv.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ple counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 264 | Ple | 175 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 152 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | listed | Ple | 21 |
| ES Spain | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Ple | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | Plé | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | Ple | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ple is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, ditferently, use partiality as in k6-léeng, to pity. an order, a season, to order, your honored, good
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Catalan, full (containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of pleō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, disputation, arguing, debate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
abbreviation of Palestine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rmt, money
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christophe Pleb. 1966FRFrench alpine skier
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 359 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 333 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 286 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 277 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 276 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 264 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 263 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 259 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 213 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 204 | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 152 | #2,696 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 138 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ple have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Ple in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ple.
- How common is the name Ple?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 16 people named Ple in 2008, about 1 in 733 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ple?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ple”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.