Plate Family History
Plate Name Meaning
German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of plate armor from Middle High German blate plate Middle Dutch plate ‘plate armor plating’. North German: topographic name from Middle Low German plate ‘sandbank at a river or in the sea’; also habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg and other regions. English (Staffordshire and Lancashire): variant of Platt 1 or
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022