Declèves Surname

3,798,600th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 27 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

Declèves Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Declèves Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium221:522,57550,051
France51:13,284,544357,392

The alternate forms: Decleves (80) are calculated separately.

Declèves Last Name Facts

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

Declèves is held by more people in Belgium than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Decleves. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Declèves? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 3,798,600th most commonly used surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Declèves are found; 100 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.

The last name Declèves is most common in Belgium, where it is held by 22 people, or 1 in 522,575. In Belgium it is mostly concentrated in: Walloon Region, where 95 percent are found and Flemish Region, where 5 percent are found. Excluding Belgium it occurs in one country. It is also common in France, where 19 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Decleves9680/
Desclèves943/
Declève9382/
Descleves8296/
Decleve80268/
Descleve7511/
Declaive751/
Decklever71108/
Deckliver711/
Decleiver711/
Declivi672/
Deklever6317/
D'Esclaibes6310/
Dekluyver5932/
Dekluiver594/
Discliver590/
Deklewa5331/

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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 Declèves
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