Plant
loc · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic for a gardener or planter of various plants; first attested William Plante 1262 For (Ess)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Plant is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- INIndia
- GBUnited Kingdom
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
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)
metonymic for a gardener or planter of various plants; first attested William Plante 1262 For (Ess)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Plant counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5.9K | Plant | 351 |
| IN India | — | 8 | Plant | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12K | Plant | 211 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Plant | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | Plant | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 298 | — | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 58 | — | 28 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Plant 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 English, dener, from ME plant young tree, herb (OE plante, from L planta cutting, shoot, reinforced by OF plante from the same source). 2. perhaps also a nickname for a tender or 494 Plas, van den Plouvier delicate individual, from the same word in a transferred sense. the N Italian city of Piacenza, so called from L Placentia (neut. pi. of the pres. part, of placere). Var.: Plante. Var.: Pleasaunce.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, dener, from ME plant young tree, herb (OE plante, from
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, gardener.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Irish, This English name, of dual origin, is on record in East Anglia in 1262; it appears in Ireland in the seventeenth century and subsequently became identified with two areas, Cos. Longford and Wicklow
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- David Plantb. 1783USAmerican politician (1783-1851)
- Henry Bradley Plantb. 1819USRailroad and Steamboat Company Founder (1819–1899)
- John Plantb. 1877USAmerican basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1877-1955)
- William Plantb. 1892USAmerican racewalker (1892-1969)
- Arnold Plantb. 1898GBBritish economist
- Richard Plantb. 1910DEEmigre professor of German and author (1910–1998)
- Ken Plantb. 1925GBFootballer (1925-2014)
- Robert Plantb. 1948GBEnglish musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin
- Sadie Plantb. 1964GBBritish writer (born 1964)
- Miranda Plantactress
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12K | #617 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.9K | #5,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,483 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #5,998 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 298 | #6,932 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 58 | #40,455 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 58 | #40,001 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #108,864 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| 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 Plant mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic for a gardener or planter of various plants; first attested William Plante 1262 For (Ess) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Plant have the most bearers?
- Plant is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled plant.
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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, “Plant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.