Plana

loc · Latin script

Meaning: face; side (of a sheet of paper)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Plana is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain
  • RSSerbia
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
135 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PlanaLatin(measured from records)
ПланаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

face; side (of a sheet of paper)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Plana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Plana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—4KPlana124
BR Brazil—135Plana37
FR France—51Plana135
RS Serbia—listedPlana4
CO Colombia——Plana17
AR Argentina—561Plana47
US United States—269—99

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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Plana is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Planã

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Plana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, plain (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of planout

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, third-person singular past historic of planer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, feminine singular of plano

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, feminine singular of planu

    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)

175018001850190019502000Giovanni Plana, b. 1781Josep Falp i Plana, b. 1873Georgette Plana, b. 1917Fabià Puigserver i Plana, b. 1938Jaume Vallcorba Plana, b. 1949Tony Plana, b. 1952Montserrat Duch i Plana, b. 1959Agustín Abadía, b. 1962Sergi Vidal, b. 1981

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 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Plana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4K#1,296
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4K#1,295
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—561—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020269#76,963
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010255#75,564
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000222#79,676
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—135#50,347
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196193—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195189—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194184—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197172—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198169—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Plana mean, and where does it come from?
face; side (of a sheet of paper) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Plana have the most bearers?
Plana is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled plana.

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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, “Plana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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