Plude

surname · English · Latin script

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

Plude is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In American Samoa it is the 25th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Perhaps a respelling of French Palud.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 609K◐
  • ASAmerican Samoa1 in 2.4K
  • SSSouth Sudan1 in 30K

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

≈546 ●

across 1 country

Sources
145 ●

5.7K records

Reference-verified

1 in 609K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

Perhaps a respelling of French Palud.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Plude is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5465.1K rec.1 in 609K617Plude145
GB United Kingdom—192195 rec.——Plude3
CA Canada—105110 rec.——Plude3
TR Türkiye—2525 rec.——Plude1
AU Australia—2323 rec.——Plude3
IT Italy—2121 rec.——Plude1
IL Israel—2020 rec.——Plude1
FI Finland—1818 rec.——Plude1
DE Germany—1212 rec.——Plude3
AS American Samoa#251033 rec.——Plude1
SS South Sudan#4641032 rec.——Plude1

Roughly 546 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 609K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English5.7K87%
  • Spanish2273%
  • French1302%
  • 1032%
  • German691%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5,67087%
Spanish2273%
French1302%
1032%
German691%

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◐

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

  • Spanish surname423 records spelled Plude4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Honduras, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Pludé

32 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.

Other recorded senses●

Plude is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Zvejas tīkla pludiņš (liela izmēra)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence●

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Plude
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020617#38,609
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010546#40,144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000541#38,464
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Plude?
We estimate roughly 546 people bear Plude (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Plude have the most bearers?
We estimate about 546 people bear Plude in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled plude.
How common is Plude compared with other names?
In American Samoa, Plude is the 25th most common surname of 121 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Plude mean?
Recorded meaning: Perhaps a respelling of French Palud.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Plude” — the 25th most common surname in American Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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