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 surname Seive (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﻒ) is held by more people in France than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Seive? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 731,961st most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 18,402,894 people. Seive is predominantly found in Europe, where 93 percent of Seive reside; 93 percent reside in Western Europe and 93 percent reside in Gallo-Europe. Seive is also the 790,880th most frequently used first name globally, held by 137 people.
The last name Seive is most prevalent in France, where it is borne by 368 people, or 1 in 180,497. In France Seive is mostly found in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 82 percent live, Île-de-France, where 5 percent live and Occitanie, where 4 percent live. Without taking into account France it occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 3 percent live and Ethiopia, where 2 percent live.
Seive Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Seive has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name contracted 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
- 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 Seive
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