Plourde

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Plourde is a surname, most frequently recorded in Canada. In Isle of Man it is the 16th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Altération de Pelourde, nom d’une localité dans la Gironde.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 10K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 39K
  • USUnited States1 in 79K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.2K ●

across 2 countries

Sources
248 ●

52K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 79K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

recorded in French

Altération de Pelourde, nom d’une localité dans la Gironde.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Plourde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CA Canada#8817,3586.3K rec.——Plourde115
GB United Kingdom—6,0256.1K rec.——Plourde16
US United States—4,20835K rec.1 in 79K4.2KPlourde248
AU Australia—788781 rec.——Plourde18
DE Germany—371362 rec.——Plourde16
IT Italy—203209 rec.——Plourde4
IL Israel—190191 rec.——Plourde2
NZ New Zealand—137147 rec.——Plourde4
SE Sweden—103106 rec.——Plourde2
PT Portugal—10399 rec.——Plourde2
MT Malta#25958131 rec.——Plourde1
GT Guatemala—5453 rec.——Plourde2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English43K76%
  • French7.1K13%
  • Spanish1.3K2%
  • 9262%
  • German6351%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English42,61576%
French7,12413%
Spanish1,3052%
9262%
German6351%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Plourde is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname1.1K records spelled Plourde2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Plourdé

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020301900192019401960198025 · 1951

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Plourde in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18917
19019
191111
19219
193113
194118
195125
196125
197119
198117
199119

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, b. 1915Lucien Plourde, b. 1930Jean-Claude Plourde, b. 1933André Plourde, b. 1937Hélène Plourde, b. 1955Josée Plourde, b. 1960Derrick Plourde, b. 1971Danny Plourde, b. 1981Jean-François Plourde, b. 1982Simone Plourde, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Plourde
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,866
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.1K#7,445
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204K#8,040
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198117—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19219—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Plourde?
We estimate roughly 4.2 thousand people bear Plourde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Plourde have the most bearers?
Plourde is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled plourde.
How common is Plourde compared with other names?
In Canada, Plourde is the 881st most common surname of 636,122 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Plourde mean?
Recorded meaning: Altération de Pelourde, nom d’une localité dans la Gironde.
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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Plourde” — the 881st most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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