Boy name origins & meanings
- French : Ground without slope
Family name origins & meanings
- 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.
