Plaisance: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Sharing the Plaisance name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname statistics

Counting heads is the honest place to start with Plaisance.

We don't publish a meaning for Plaisance without a reliable source. Our researchers work it out from the records of each family. The 2010 US Census counted 2,822 people named Plaisance, ranking it number 11,200 among American surnames. INSEE counts 1,414 people born in France with the Plaisance surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960.

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