Platz

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.

• Spanish:/plats/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, France, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Plätz

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Plätz

• Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States

  Also written Plätz

• Russian surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Плац, Платц

35 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.

Platz 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 German, place, room, square

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of German

• In German, square, plaza, piazza

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In hrx, place

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Robert HP Platzb. 1951DEGerman composer
• Tom Platzb. 1955USAmerican professional bodybuilder
• Walter Platzactor

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).

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Platz mean, and where does it come from?

from place-names or from 'slope, embankment'; also 'wedge', 'cake' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

What are other forms of the name Platz?

In the etymology graph, Piazza is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Platz?

In Spanish /plats/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Platz?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Platz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled platz. After it come United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Platz?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,783 people named Platz in 2010, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.