The Plan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 199 people carried this name — #92,358 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,428,600 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (199).
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 352 people named Plan.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Lozère.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
37 people named Plan live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
111 people named Plan is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Plan in American newspapers,
1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Plan.
- Place 7,251 · U.S. census
- Placide 725 · U.S. census
- Plain 1,159 · U.S. census
- Plaine 158 · U.S. census
- Plaisance 2,822 · U.S. census
- Plaisir 249 · U.S. census
- Plana 255 · U.S. census
- Planas 1,319 · U.S. census
- Planchard 140 · U.S. census
- Planche 129 · U.S. census
- Plancher 168 · U.S. census
- Planchon 205 · U.S. census
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