Chévrier
surname · Latin script
Chévrier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old French, from Latin caprārius, corresponding to chèvre + -ier.
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Chevrier in FR France, CA Canada, US United States and 3 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)- OldFrench(measured from records)
- Latincaprārius(measured from records)
Inherited from Old French, from Latin caprārius, corresponding to chèvre + -ier.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chévrier is found
(measured from records)Chévrier 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 | #639 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 881 | Chevrier | 263 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Chevrier | 108 |
| US United States | — | 414 | 1 in 803K | 450 | Chevrier | 131 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 222 | 1 in 38K | 222 | Chevrier | 26 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Chevrier | 7 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Chevrier | 3 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chévrier mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old French, from Latin caprārius, corresponding to chèvre + -ier. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chévrier?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Chévrier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chevrier. After it come Canada, United States, Switzerland and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chévrier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 414 people named Chévrier in 2010, about 1 in 803 thousand residents.
- How common is Chévrier compared with other names?
- In France, Chévrier is the 639th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A9vrierThe 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, “Chévrier” — the 639th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.