Plácido Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

In Wikidata, Plácido is listed as a Portuguese surname. Public name statistics give a good picture of the Plácido surname.

• Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Plácido, so we research it family by family rather than guess.
• The 2010 US Census counted 1,306 people named Plácido, ranking it number 20,348 among American surnames. Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 55% of the total. 122 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Plácido name at birth.

Heraldry and the Plácido name

Sharing the Plácido name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Want more than a summary? See the Plácido family name pack.