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
The surname Prouve has its highest incidence in France. It may appear as a variant: Prouvé. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Prouve? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,736,881st most frequently held family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. The last name Prouve occurs mostly in Europe, where 97 percent of Prouve live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 77 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
The last name Prouve is most commonly used in France, where it is borne by 83 people, or 1 in 800,274. In France it is most prevalent in: Île-de-France, where 22 percent live, Grand Est, where 14 percent live and Hauts-de-France, where 14 percent live. Apart from France this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 16 percent live and England, where 3 percent live.
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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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