Plasencia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Plasencia (a market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain)

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

/plasenθja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Plasencia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 4.1K
  • 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,800 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
247 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PlasenciaLatin(measured from records)
ПласенсияCyrillic(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)

Plasencia (a market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Plasencia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#604≈7,800 est.≈1 in 4.1K—Plasencia72
ES Spain#9195,5481 in 9K5.5KPlasencia132
US United States—3,6081 in 92K3.8KPlasencia247
DO Dominican Republic#262≈2,700 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Plasencia27
VE Venezuela—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 26K—Plasencia32
UY Uruguay—1941 in 17K194—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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Plasencia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Plasencîa, Pläsenciä

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Plasence, Plasència

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Plasència, Plaséncia

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Пласенсия

43 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Casto Plasencia, b. 1846Ladislao Plasencki, b. 1946Alejandro Martínez Plasencia, b. 1966Rene Plasencia, b. 1973Ana Plasencia, b. 1974Carlos Manuel Plasencia, b. 1978Yahaira Plasencia, b. 1994

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)

FormalEstimado/a Plasencia,Dear Plasencia, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Plasencia,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Plasencia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.5K#973
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.5K#972
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.8K#8,390
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.6K#9,058
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.7K#10,920
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—194—
US United Stateswru 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

What does the name Plasencia mean, and where does it come from?
Plasencia (a market city in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Plasencia?
A machine transcription gives /plasenθja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Plasencia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Plasencia in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plasencia.
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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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 2026-10-10.

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