The PREVOST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,126	7438	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	340	12988	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+3786	+5550	+0.001	+8
Other Countries
Australia	28	40325	0	2
United Kingdom	173	17897	0	4

Top States for PREVOST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	473	1268	0.011	106
Texas	373	5238	0.002	18
Michigan	356	3169	0.004	36
New York	329	5623	0.002	17
California	280	9005	0.001	8
Top States for PREVOST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	92	1436	0.012	117
Louisiana	473	1268	0.011	106
Vermont	50	2000	0.008	82
Montana	58	1990	0.006	64
New Hampshire	53	3235	0.004	43

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PREVOST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PREVOST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PREVOST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PREVOST in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	730	17.69
White (Hispanic)	86	2.08
Mixed Race	73	1.77
Native American/Alaskan	33	0.8
Asian/Pacific	13	0.32
White (Caucasian)	3,191	77.34

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

Similar names to PREVOST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PREVOST.

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.