Prouve Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Prouve Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 83 | 1:800,274 | 96,515 |
| Belgium | 18 | 1:638,702 | 56,744 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
The alternate forms: Prouvé (35) are calculated separately.
Prouve Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Prouve Come From? nationality or country of origin
Prouve occurs more in France more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Prouvé. For other possible spellings of Prouve click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Prouve? popularity and diffusion
The last name Prouve is the 1,736,881st most commonly held family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Prouve are found; 94 percent are found in Western Europe and 77 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.
The surname is most widely held in France, where it is carried by 83 people, or 1 in 800,274. In France it is mostly concentrated in: Île-de-France, where 22 percent are found, Grand Est, where 14 percent are found and Hauts-de-France, where 14 percent are found. Beside France it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 16 percent are found and England, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Prouve
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