Prevost

At the 2020 census, 4,186 Americans bore the surname Prevost — 7,620th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,186
Rank: 7,620th
How common: 1 in 71,400
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Prevost described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.2%
Black, not Hispanic 18.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Prevost

Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763)French novelist
Marie Prevost (1896–1937)Canadian actress
Marcel Prévost (1862–1941)French writer
Yvonne Prévost (1878–1942)French tennis player
André Prévost (1875–1951)French tennis player
Jean Prévost (1901–1944)French resistance member
Daniel Prévost (born 1939)French actor and comedian
Françoise Prévost (1929–1997)French actress

People named Prevost with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Prevost

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.