Plavan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: , PLAVIT adj. 1. Plavan ; -escu act

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 21K(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 501K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 1.5M

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.

Uruguay (measured from records)

164 people

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Catalan

, PLAVIT adj. 1. Plavan ; -escu act. 2. Playa( (16 B VI 20) si Plavifescu act. < adj. plavit. (halal). 3. Cf. Plavdtesti s. (Dm).

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Plavan 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 Plavan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay1641 in 21K164Plavan14
US United States≈90 est.≈1 in 3.7MlistedPlavan81
IT Italy≈43 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Plavan1
GT Guatemala≈34 est.≈1 in 501K—Plavan1
IN India≈33 est.≈1 in 40M—Plavan3
CO Colombia≈16 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Plavan3
CA Canada≈12 est.≈1 in 3.2M—Plavan4

164 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)

Plavan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Плаван, Плавань, Plăvan

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Плаван

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United Kingdom

    Also written Plăvan

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Plavan 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 Breton, se tapir, se coucher à plat ; s’abattre

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Plavan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—164—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Plavan mean?
Recorded meaning: , PLAVIT adj. 1. Plavan ; -escu act.
In which country does Plavan have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 164 people named Plavan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plavan.
Where is Plavan most common?
Plavan is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Plavan?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 164 people named Plavan, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Plavan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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