Is There a Plate Coat of Arms?

Spelled Plate, the surname still points back to Platt. The family name meaning is “flat ground or plank bridge”, the same as for Platt.

• Related forms: Plat, Platts and Plutt.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• Records show Plate as one of the forms Platt took over time.
• In the 2010 US Census, 1,293 Americans gave Plate as their last name (rank 20,512).

Arms associated with the name

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