Seive Surname
Approximately 396 people bear this surname
Seive Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 368 | 1:180,497 | 28,114 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| Ethiopia | 9 | 1:10,838,474 | 14,518 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
Seive (137) may also be a first name.
Seive Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seive Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Seive (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﻒ) occurs in France more than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Seive? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 731,961st most frequently occurring surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 18,402,894 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 93 percent of Seive are found; 93 percent are found in Western Europe and 93 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. Seive is also the 790,880th most commonly held first name throughout the world, held by 137 people.
The surname Seive is most frequently occurring in France, where it is carried by 368 people, or 1 in 180,497. In France Seive is primarily found in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 82 percent are found, Île-de-France, where 5 percent are found and Occitanie, where 4 percent are found. Beside France this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 3 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 2 percent are found.
Seive Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Seive has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Seive last name fell 58 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seive Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seive in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻴﻒ | syf | 80 |
| ﺳﻴﻔﺎ | syfa | 20 |
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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 Seive
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