Plese Family History
Plese Name Meaning
Croatian and Slovenian (Pleše): nickname for a bald man or a topographic name for someone who lived on a glade derived from Croatian dialect and Slovenian pleša ‘bald head bald patch (in the forest)’ or from Croatian dialect plešiv Slovenian pleš(av) ‘bald treeless’. The surname may also be a habitational name for someone from any of the settlements called Pleš in Lower Carniola Slovenia. Compare Plesa . Possibly also an altered form of German Plesse a variant of Pless .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022