Descaves Surname
Approximately 468 people bear this surname
Descaves Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 461 | 1:144,084 | 22,250 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Descaves Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Descaves Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Descaves occurs most in France. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Descaves? popularity and diffusion
The surname Descaves is the 646,966th most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 15,571,679 people. The last name Descaves occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Descaves live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
Descaves is most commonly occurring in France, where it is borne by 461 people, or 1 in 144,084. In France Descaves is most frequent in: Île-de-France, where 28 percent live, Grand Est, where 23 percent live and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, where 14 percent live. Aside from France this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 1 percent live and Belgium, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Descave | 93 | 21 | / |
| Desaves | 93 | 1 | / |
| Decave | 86 | 58 | / |
| Descavish | 82 | 24 | / |
| Dischaves | 82 | 3 | / |
| Deschavez | 82 | 1 | / |
| Desavis | 80 | 138 | / |
| Descove | 80 | 1 | / |
| Dekavets | 75 | 5 | / |
| Desavois | 75 | 1 | / |
| Decahvez | 75 | 1 | / |
| Descoubes | 71 | 272 | / |
| Desavisse | 71 | 63 | / |
| Dicave | 71 | 38 | / |
| Decava | 71 | 21 | / |
| Decavi | 71 | 19 | / |
| Descavich | 71 | 15 | / |
| Deskovets | 71 | 1 | / |
| Decabe | 71 | 1 | / |
| Decove | 71 | 1 | / |
| Descovi | 67 | 308 | / |
| Deshkovets | 67 | 144 | / |
| Decavit | 67 | 19 | / |
| Deakove | 67 | 13 | / |
| Decover | 67 | 7 | / |
| Dekavis | 67 | 3 | / |
| Dekhave | 67 | 2 | / |
| Dekaver | 67 | 1 | / |
| Desawis | 67 | 1 | / |
| Decouve | 67 | 1 | / |
| Dekaave | 67 | 1 | / |
| Decahue | 67 | 1 | / |
| Dhekave | 67 | 1 | / |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Descaves
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