Plasencia
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/plaˈsensja/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Plasencia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Plasencia is also written Пласенсия in Cyrillic.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4K
- ESSpain1 in 9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Plasencia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Plasencia in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Plasencia
- Spanish:/plaˈsensja/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Plasencia is found
(measured from records)Plasencia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #604 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Plasencia | 72 |
| ES Spain | #919 | 5,548 | 1 in 9K | 5.5K | Plasencia | 132 |
| US United States | — | 3,608 | 1 in 92K | 3.8K | Plasencia | 247 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #262 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Plasencia | 27 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 59 | Plasencia | 107 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 24 | Plasencia | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 194 | 1 in 17K | 194 | — | 18 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); 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)Plasencia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Plasencia (a market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain)
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)- Casto Plasenciab. 1846ESSpanish painter (1846-1890)
- Ana Plasenciab. 1974DEGerman journalist and television presenter
- Samantha Plasenciafashion designer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Plasencia?
- In Spanish /plaˈsensja/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Plasencia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Plasencia in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plasencia. After it come Spain, United States, Dominican Republic and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Plasencia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,548 people named Plasencia, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Plasencia compared with other names?
- In Peru, Plasencia is the 604th most common surname of 173,371 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/plasenciaThe 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, “Plasencia” — the 604th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.