Plascencia
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/plassɛnsia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Plascencia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Placencia/Plasencia. Most prevalent in Mexico and nearly absent from Spain.
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 24K
- AOAngola≈1 in 44K
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
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
8,710 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Placencia/Plasencia. Most prevalent in Mexico and nearly absent from Spain.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Plascencia 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 | — | 8,710 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Plascencia | 275 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Plascencia | 16 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Plascencia | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Plascencia | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 607K | — | Plascencia | 15 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Plascencia | 3 |
| MX Mexico | #536 | — | — | 552 | Plascencia | 176 |
8,710 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
- Mario Pérezb. 1927MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (born 1927)
- Benjamín Castillo Plascenciab. 1945MXMexican Roman Catholic bishop
- Wilber Plascencia Pichénb. 1950PEPeruvian politician
- Carlos Medina Plascenciab. 1955MXMexican senator and Governor of Guanajuato
- Pedro Plascencia Salinasb. 1956MXMexican composer (1956-1994)
- Luis Plascenciab. 1957MXMexican association football player
- Javier Plascenciab. 1967MXMexican chef
- Ulises Dávilab. 1991MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Stefani Jiménezb. 1994MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.5K | #4,065 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,469 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 552 | #584 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Plascencia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Placencia/Plasencia. Most prevalent in Mexico and nearly absent from Spain. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Plascencia?
- A machine transcription gives /plassɛnsia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Plascencia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Plascencia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plascencia.
- How common is the name Plascencia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,710 people named Plascencia in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Plascencia compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Plascencia is the 536th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/plascenciaThe 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, “Plascencia” — the 536th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.