Prevers Surname

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

Approximately 27 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Luxembourg
Highest density in:
Luxembourg

Prevers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Prevers 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
Luxembourg201:29,0275,175
Haiti41:2,670,97716,453
Belgium31:3,832,215117,288

The alternate forms: Prévers (8) are calculated separately.

Prevers Last Name Facts

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

Prevers is borne by more people in Luxembourg than any other country/territory. It can be found as: Prévers. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Prevers? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 3,798,600th most common surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The surname Prevers is primarily found in Europe, where 85 percent of Prevers live; 85 percent live in Western Europe and 74 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most widespread in Luxembourg, where it is carried by 20 people, or 1 in 29,027. In Luxembourg Prevers is primarily found in: Luxembourg Canton, where 100 percent are found. Besides Luxembourg it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Haiti, where 15 percent are found and Belgium, where 11 percent are found.

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
Prévers958/
Pervers8612/
Prevors867/
Prewers864/
Provers863/
Pravers863/
Privers861/
Perverse800/
Prowers715/
Prywers711/

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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 Prevers
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