Last name origins & meanings:
- English and French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener,
in particular someone with a herb garden, from Middle English
plant (Old English plante), Old French plante
‘herb’, ‘shrub’, ‘young tree’. In English it may also be a nickname
for a tender or delicate individual, from the same word in a
transferred sense.
- French: topographic name for a
planted area, in particular one planted with herbs or vines. Compare
Plantier.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): unexplained.
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