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The PREVO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 743 29840 0 3
United States (1880 census) 150 23711 0 3
Change since 1880 +593 -6129 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PREVO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 176 5864 0.002 18
Alabama 65 5687 0.001 15
Illinois 54 20753 0.000 4
North Carolina 53 9731 0.001 7
California 40 44808 0.000 1
Top States for PREVO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 12 6337 0.002 20
Michigan 176 5864 0.002 18
Alabama 65 5687 0.001 15
Iowa 37 10392 0.001 13
North Carolina 53 9731 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PREVO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PREVO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PREVO in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PREVO by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PREVO

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PREVO surname.

Ethnic distribution of PREVO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 517 69.58
Black/African American 186 25.03
Mixed Race 23 3.1
White (Hispanic) 12 1.62
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PREVO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PREVO is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PREVO in historical publications

PREVO. O.Fr., a Provost.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PREVO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PREVO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PREVO

The following words are slight variants of PREVO that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.