Riveau Surname
Approximately 186 people bear this surname
Riveau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 162 | 1:410,017 | 60,039 |
| Argentina | 13 | 1:3,287,955 | 132,850 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Riveau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Riveau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Riveau is held by more people in France than any other country/territory. It can occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Riveau? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,244,200th most widespread last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 39,180,354 people. The surname Riveau is primarily found in Europe, where 87 percent of Riveau reside; 87 percent reside in Western Europe and 87 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
The last name Riveau is most numerous in France, where it is carried by 162 people, or 1 in 410,017. In France it is mostly concentrated in: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 30 percent live, Île-de-France, where 22 percent live and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 16 percent live. Without taking into account France this last name is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 7 percent live and The United States, where 2 percent live.
Riveau Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Riveau has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Riveau last name rose 150 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
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