Placencia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: De cabellos rubios
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/plaθenθja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Placencia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 8.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 35K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,996 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
De cabellos rubios
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Placencia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,996 | 1 in 83K | 4K | Placencia | 188 |
| CL Chile | #689 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 1 | Placencia | 54 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #307 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Placencia | 21 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Placencia | 24 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Placencia | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 66 | 1 in 51K | 66 | — | 7 |
3,996 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonio Placencia Romerob. 1799PEPeruvian military personnel
- Alfredo R. Placencia Jaureguib. 1875MXpoet
- Alejandra Placenciab. 1978CLChilean politician
- Raudy Readb. 1993DOnot in their usual nameDominican professional baseball catcher
- Maritza Dorila Placencia MedinaPEPeruvian pharmacist
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,154 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 66 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Placencia mean, and where does it come from?
- De cabellos rubios Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Placencia?
- A machine transcription gives /plaθenθja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Placencia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Placencia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled placencia.
- How common is the name Placencia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,996 people named Placencia in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Placencia compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Placencia is the 307th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/placenciaThe 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, “Placencia” — the 307th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.