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The PLATO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 944 24763 0 4
United States (1880 census) 304 14112 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +640 -10651 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 15 64589 0 1
United Kingdom 86 24621 0 2
Top States for PLATO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 106 8180 0.002 20
California 97 23856 0.000 3
Ohio 80 16132 0.001 7
New York 79 23307 0.000 4
Texas 73 19699 0.000 4
Top States for PLATO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 106 8180 0.002 20
Wyoming 9 8019 0.002 18
South Dakota 8 14433 0.001 11
Idaho 13 13408 0.001 10
Alabama 36 9261 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PLATO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PLATO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PLATO in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PLATO by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PLATO

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PLATO surname.

Ethnic distribution of PLATO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 777 82.31
Black/African American 106 11.23
White (Hispanic) 46 4.87
Mixed Race 9 0.95
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PLATO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PLATO is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PLATO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PLATO.

Similar names to PLATO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLATO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PLATO

The following words are slight variants of PLATO that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.