Provençal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Provençal (native or inhabitant of Provence, a traditional geographic region roughly corresponding to the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) (usually male)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Provençal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 388K
- GHGhana≈1 in 208K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
857 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, 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 Provencal in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 4 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)
Provençal (native or inhabitant of Provence, a traditional geographic region roughly corresponding to the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) (usually male)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Provençal is read(measured from records)
Provençal is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French72%
Provençal (native or inhabitant of Provence, a traditional geographic region roughly corresponding to the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) (usually male)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
le surnom d’un individu originaire de Provence.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English12%
Of, from or relating to Provence, a traditional geographic region roughly corresponding to the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.5%
Provençal; Occitan (language spoken in southern France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Provençal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 857 | 1 in 388K | 857 | Provencal | 148 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Provencal | 81 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 260K | 24 | Provencal | 38 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Provencal | 14 |
| FR France | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 487K | 24 | Provencal | 89 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Provencal | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #234 | — | — | — | Provencal | 1 |
857 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Évariste Lévi-Provençalb. 1894FRFrench historian (1894-1956)
- Paul Provençalb. 1904CACanadian politician
- Luc Provençalb. 1955CAQuebec politician
- Michel Lévy-Provençalb. 1973FRFrench entrepreneur and engineer
- Jean-François Provençalb. 1984CAscreenwriter
- RLPb. 2000CAnot in their usual nameCanadian disc jockey
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Provençal mean, and where does it come from?
- Provençal (native or inhabitant of Provence, a traditional geographic region roughly corresponding to the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) (usually male) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Provençal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Provençal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled provencal.
- How common is the name Provençal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Provençal in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
- How common is Provençal compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Provençal is the 234th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Provençal” — the 234th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.