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 occurs in France more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms: Prouvé. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Prouve? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,736,881st most commonly used last name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 65,653,567 people. The last name Prouve occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Prouve live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 77 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
It is most commonly occurring in France, where it is held by 83 people, or 1 in 800,274. In France Prouve is most numerous 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. Outside of France Prouve is found in 6 countries. It is also found 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
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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 Prouve
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