Plan
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Plan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 89K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 120K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Plän in DE Germany and Plaen in GB United Kingdom.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Plan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 120K | 61 | Plan | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 307K | — | Plän | 46 |
| US United States | 199 | 1 in 1.7M | 206 | Plan | 104 |
| SE Sweden | 115 | 1 in 89K | 115 | — | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 809K | 10 | Plaen | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | Plan | 8 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Plan is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, to pillage, to loot, to ravage, to rob, to hold up. Ufi
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In English, A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, plan (a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal: plan, plot, scheme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, plan (a drawing showing technical details of a building)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, plan (a subscription to a service) (Classifier: 個／个 c)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lukas Planb. 1975Austrian speleologist (1975-)
- Matilda Planb. 1998SESwedish footballer
- Yaniv PlanUSPh.D. California Institute of Technology 2011
- David PlansGBnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID id 0000-0002-0476-3342
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 206 | #95,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 199 | #92,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 115 | #6,445 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 63 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Plan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 564 people named Plan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plan.
- Where is Plan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Plan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 89 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Plan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 199 people named Plan in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Plan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/planThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Plan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.