Placé Name Origin and Family Crest

Placé is a surname that official counts pick up clearly. Placé ranked 4,862 in the 2010 US Census, with 7,251 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 5,000 US surnames. French birth records list 3,695 children named Placé between 1891 and 2000.

Surname origin

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Placé, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Heraldry and the Placé name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Placé family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Research your Placé family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.