Platt Family History
- Platt Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Platt or Platt Bridge in Lancashire, named in Middle English with Old French plat ‘flat’, ‘thin’ (see Platte), in the dialect sense ‘plank bridge’. English: topographic name from Middle English plat ‘plot of land’, ‘piece of ground’ (Old English plætt). Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German platt ‘flat’. German: variant of Platte 3.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,233,789 Historical Documents with Platt on Ancestry
- 480,122 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 225,734 Census and Voter Lists
- 44,197 Military Records
- 30,649 Immigration Records
- 453,087 Member Trees
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Number of Platt families
 1,715 - 3,428  572 - 1,714 |
 1 - 571  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Platt families
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22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Platt census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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