Laplante Family History

French:: topographic name or perhaps a nickname (compare 2 below) or metonymic occupational name from plante ‘plant’ in Old French also ‘(nursery) plantation (of trees bushes)’ with fused feminine definite article la as a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a nursery or plantation (often one planted with vines);

or a habitational name from any of the places in Loire and Vienne called La Plante. Compare Plante soldier's name from la plante ‘the plant’.