Planas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine plural of plano
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/planas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Planas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 7.8K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 17K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 21K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,426 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Andorra, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
second-person singular past historic of planer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Planas is read(measured from records)
Planas is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish61%
feminine plural of plano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Planas in English.
- French6.5%
second-person singular past historic of planer
as a wordkaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Planas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #564 | 6,426 | 1 in 7.8K | 6.4K | Planas | 145 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Planas | 25 |
| US United States | — | 1,319 | 1 in 252K | 1.3K | Planas | 188 |
| CU Cuba | #372 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Planas | 15 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Planas | 27 |
| PY Paraguay | #575 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Planas | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 167 | 1 in 20K | 167 | — | 12 |
| AD Andorra | #198 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Planas | 12 |
6,426 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Planas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, accusative feminine plural of plānus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, feminine plural of plan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, plan
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)
- Eduardo Blancob. 1838VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician and writer
- Juan Manénb. 1883ESnot in their usual nameSpanish violinist and composer (1883–1971)
- Josep Planasb. 1901ESSpanish association football player (1901-1977)
- Federico Gutiérrez-Larrayab. 1919ESnot in their usual nameSpanish cinematographer (1919-2004)
- Pere Rovira i Planasb. 1947ESSpanish poet and writer
- Luis Planas Puchadesb. 1952ESSpanish politician and diplomat
- Miquel Noguer Planasb. 1963ESCatalan politician
- Israel Hernándezb. 1970CUnot in their usual nameCuban judoka
- Carles Planasb. 1991ESSpanish association football player
- Alba Planasb. 2000ESSpanish actress
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 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.4K | #843 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.4K | #843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 922 | #27,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 774 | #28,912 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 167 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Planas come from?
- second-person singular past historic of planer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Planas?
- A machine transcription gives /planas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Planas mean?
- In Spanish, feminine plural of plano
- In which country does Planas have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Planas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled planas.
- How common is the name Planas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,426 people named Planas, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Planas compared with other names?
- In Spain, Planas is the 564th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/planasThe 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, “Planas” — the 564th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.