de Greve Surname

387,740th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 915 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

de Greve Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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de Greve Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium8161:14,0892,135
Netherlands611:276,83934,217
France171:3,907,219231,005
New Zealand71:646,90340,014
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
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The alternate forms: de Grève (46) are calculated separately.

de Greve Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name de Greve Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name de Greve is most common in Belgium. It can be rendered in the variant forms: de Grève. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name de Greve? popularity and diffusion

de Greve is the 387,740th most common family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 7,964,531 people. The surname de Greve occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of de Greve are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 84 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The surname de Greve is most frequent in Belgium, where it is borne by 816 people, or 1 in 14,089. In Belgium it is primarily concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 87 percent reside, Brussels Capital Region, where 8 percent reside and Walloon Region, where 5 percent reside. Apart from Belgium this last name is found in 12 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 7 percent reside and France, where 2 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
de Grève9646/
de Graeve943,346/
de Groeve94504/
de Greeve94176/
de Grieve9464/
de Greves942/
de Greaves891/
de Grave881,513/
de Grove88145/
De-Graeve825/
de Girves822/
de Graëve822/
De-Grave753/
de Graawe711/
de Gervais672/
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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to de Greve
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