Néve
surname · Latin script
Néve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.
- BEBelgium1 in 50K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 70K
- USUnited States1 in 264K
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)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Neve in US United States, GB United Kingdom, 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)- Middle Englishneve(measured from records)
- Old Englishnefa“nephew“nephew, grandson”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*nefō(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*nefô“nephew”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*népōts(measured from records)
- Old Frenchneveu(measured from records)
From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. The word also exists in Kurdish as nevî (“grandson, grandchild”). Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Néve 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 | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 74 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,260 | 1 in 264K | 1.3K | Neve | 221 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 12 | Neve | 172 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 7 | Neve | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 671 | 1 in 26K | 671 | Neve | 44 |
| DK Denmark | — | 251 | 1 in 23K | 251 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | #677 | 234 | 1 in 50K | 234 | Neve | 89 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Néve mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Néve have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Néve in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Néve most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Néve is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Néve?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,260 people named Néve in 2010, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
- How common is Néve compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Néve is the 677th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9veThe 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, “Néve” — the 677th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.