American Family Name Origins:
La Placa
Frequency: (368)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Italian: topographic name from placa ‘flat smooth rock’, (from medieval Greek plaka).
2. Possibly from an Italianized form, placa, of Albanian plak, a nickname meaning ‘old’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 17%. Salvatore (4), Angelo (3), Dante (2), Calogero, Cosimo, Gandolfo, Lorenzo, Pasqualina, Salvator.
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