La%20placa Family History
La%20placa Name Meaning
Italian (Sicily):: topographic name from placa ‘flat smooth rock’ (from medieval Greek plaka classical Greek plax ‘slab’) with the addition of the definite article la. possibly also of Albanian origin a nickname meaning ‘old’ derived from the Albanian adjective plak ‘old’ or the noun plak (definite form plaku) ‘old man’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022