Provost

Provost is the 4,129th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,342 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 35,800.

By the numbers

People: 8,342
Rank: 4,129th
How common: 1 in 35,800
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.6%
Black, not Hispanic 9.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Provost

Martin Provost (born 1957)film director
Jon Provost (born 1950)American actor

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

Surnames like Provost

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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.