Nevé

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nevé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States 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.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 23K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 26K
  • BEBelgium1 in 50K

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)

1,260 people, 2010

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Neve in US United States, AR Argentina, NL Netherlands and 1 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)

Derivation of Nevé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Nevé
  1. Middle Englishneve(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishnefa“nephew“nephew, grandson”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*nefō(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*nefô“nephew”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*népōts(measured from records)
  6. 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”).

Sources 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)

Nevé 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 Nevé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2601 in 264K1.3KNeve47
NL Netherlands6711 in 26K671Neve10
DK Denmark2511 in 23K251——
BE Belgium2341 in 50K234Neve15
AR Argentina691 in 659K69Neve30
NO Norway261 in 210K26——

1,260 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Nevé is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Neve, Nève, Néve, Nëvë

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nève, Neve, Néve

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Neve, Nève

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nevé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of nevar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nevé 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 Nevé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Nevé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neve.
Where is Nevé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nevé is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nevé?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,260 people named Nevé in 2010, about 1 in 264 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, “Nevé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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