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Updated: May 22, 2025
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Greek : God of the dead; God of the underworld; Ninth planet from the sun

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : derivative of pluta ‘bad weather’, a nickname for a dissatisfied, complaining person.
  • Apparently also French, an altered form of an unidentified French surname, possibly Ploteau or Plotu, a nickname for someone with flat feet, from plot, southern French dialect variant of plat ‘flat’.

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