Platte Family History
Platte Name Meaning
German: variant of Plate German: topographic name for someone who lived on higher ground from Middle Low German Middle High German plate ‘(stone) plateau rock wall’. French: rare feminine form (or as an American French name an altered form) of Plat a topographic name from Old French plat ‘flat’ (from Late Latin platus ‘broad flat’). Alternatively in Alsace and Lorraine a surname of German origin (see above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022