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Plant One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Plant   

Variants: Planta, Plante, Plantt

Category:  3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.

Guild hosted website: plant.one-name.net

DNA website: plant.one-name.net/dna.html

Contact: Dr John Plant

About the study

This is a worldwide study of Plant and some similar surnames. It includes the full historical range from medieval to recent times.  

A feature that has attracted some interest concerns the earliest evidence for the Plant name. The 19th-century claim that Plant descends from the royal name Plantagenet has been debunked, not least by y-dna evidence, though it remains the case that the first evidence for the Plantagenet name shares its time and place with that for the Plant surname: viz. Normandy 1173-80.
 
For this, see Two Brief Points followed by Some Contexts of Meaning and an outline of this Feature of Interest or a lengthy discussion of the formative context of the name.
 
  

Variant names

Planta, de la Planta, von Planta, Pianta, Plante, La Plante, Plantt, Plant (from early forms Plaunt, Plonte, Plante and Plantt), and possibly Plenty (from early form Plente or Plonte) and Pallant (from Palente).
 
 

Also interested in `similar' names, such as Plantagenet, Planterose, Plantyn and Plantard.

Name origin

See discussion of the name's meaning and orgins.

Name frequency

The name and its variants are widely spread throughout the world, particularly in former English colonies. There are, for example, around 11,000 Plants in the UK and 2,000 with the spellings Plante, Planty and Plantie in SW France. The worldwide population of the Plant surname is around 28,000 and there are a similar number with the spelling Plante.

Distribution of the name

See distribution.

DNA

See full details or a brief outline including how to receive advice.

Links

Plant Family History Group web site:
* entry page.
 
Some recent papers on: 
         * received Guild Award of Excellence.
 
See also details of web author and other contacts of the Plant Family History Society.

Contact Details

Dr John Plant

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Plant in the Guild Indexes
(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)
  • Global Marriages (public)  1453
  • Global Marriages (members)* 1473
  • Inscriptions Index  3
  • Modern Newspaper Index  3
  • Probate Index* 95
  • Datastores (public)  4
  • Datastores (members)* 1
  • Study materials for the study Plant* 42
  • References to the name Plant in the Guild Journal  22

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