Fièvet
surname · Latin script
Fièvet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: land in return for service, from a dim. of OF fief land held in this way (of Gmc origin). Var.: Fievez. The surname Fillingham is still found in Lines., but is now more common in Lancs.
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
- BEBelgium1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fievet in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
land in return for service, from a dim. of OF fief land held in this way (of Gmc origin). Var.: Fievez. The surname Fillingham is still found in Lines., but is now more common in Lancs.
Sources 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fièvet counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 571 | Fievet | 229 |
| BE Belgium | 573 | 1 in 20K | 573 | Fievet | 50 |
| US United States | 137 | 1 in 2.4M | 142 | Fievet | 82 |
| AR Argentina | 132 | 1 in 345K | 132 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 820K | listed | Fievet | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 60 | 1 in 288K | 60 | Fievet | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #83,974 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fièvet mean, and where does it come from?
- land in return for service, from a dim. of OF fief land held in this way (of Gmc origin). Var.: Fievez. The surname Fillingham is still found in Lines., but is now more common in Lancs. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Fièvet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Fièvet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fievet.
- How common is the name Fièvet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 573 people named Fièvet in 2008, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fièvet?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fi%C3%A8vetThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fièvet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.