Kéver

surname · Latin script

Kéver is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname from Middle Dutch kever ‘beetle’.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 75K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 700K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

475 people, 2010

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kever in US United States, BE Belgium.

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)

nickname from Middle Dutch kever ‘beetle’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kéver 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.

Where Kéver is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4751 in 700K475Kever6
BE Belgium1561 in 75K156Kever12
NL Netherlands131 in 1.3M13—1
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

475 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kéver is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Belgium

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kever

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kéver under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kéver mean, and where does it come from?
nickname from Middle Dutch kever ‘beetle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Kéver have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 475 people named Kéver, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kever.
Where is Kéver most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kéver is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kéver?
In the United States, the national register counted 475 people named Kéver in 2010, about 1 in 700 thousand residents.

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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, “Kéver”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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