Plett
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpɫɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Plett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Plett.
- DKDenmark1 in 173K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 493K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
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 Plett itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)
675 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Плетт in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)
Borrowed from German Plett.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Plett 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 | 675 | 1 in 493K | 726 | — | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Плетт | 53 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 532K | — | Плетт | 20 |
| DK Denmark | 34 | 1 in 173K | 34 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Плетт | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
675 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Plett 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 Norwegian Bokmål, a spot, blemish
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)
- Peter Plettb. 1766DEGerman teacher and pioneer of smallpox vaccine (1766-1823)
- Don Plettb. 1950CACanadian politician
- Willi Plettb. 1955PYCanadian ice hockey player
- Casey Plettb. 1987CACanadian writer
- Darren Plettb. 2000AUresearcher
- Jonathan M. PlettCAresearcher
- Diethart Plettdirector
- Louisa PlettDEGerman 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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 726 | #33,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 675 | #33,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 643 | #33,471 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 34 | #14,710 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #12,439 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Plett mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Plett. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Plett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɫɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Plett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 675 people named Plett, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Plett most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Plett is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 173 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Plett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 675 people named Plett in 2010, about 1 in 493 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Plett?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/plettThe 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, “Plett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.