Laplume
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from plume ‘down’ (soft feathers), with the definite article la; perhaps a metonymic occupation name for a seller of down and feathers; also a habitational name from a place so named in Lotet-Garonne
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫəˈpɫum/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laplume is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 650K(measured from records)
- SDSudan≈1 in 17K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 18K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from plume ‘down’ (soft feathers), with the definite article la; perhaps a metonymic occupation name for a seller of down and feathers; also a habitational name from a place so named in Lotet-Garonne.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laplume 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Laplume | 1 |
| SD Sudan | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Laplume | 1 |
| US United States | 512 | 1 in 650K | 512 | Laplume | 142 |
| FR France | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 192K | 57 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Laplume | 9 |
| GH Ghana | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Laplume | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | 2 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Laplume 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 French, De Laplume ou La Plume, noms de plusieurs localités en France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Felix Laplumeb. 1961LULuxembourgian handball player
- Anne Laplumeb. 1971FRFrench politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 512 | #42,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 504 | #40,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 478 | #47,785 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 33 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Laplume mean, and where does it come from?
- from plume ‘down’ (soft feathers), with the definite article la; perhaps a metonymic occupation name for a seller of down and feathers; also a habitational name from a place so named in Lotet-Garonne. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laplume?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫəˈpɫum/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Laplume have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Laplume in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laplume.
- How common is the name Laplume?
- In the United States, the national register counted 512 people named Laplume in 2010, about 1 in 650 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laplumeThe 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, “Laplume”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.