Nepveu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Nepveu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 290Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 310Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 480K
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
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 286K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Nepveu is found
(measured from records)Nepveu 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 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 286K | 23 | Nepveu | 101 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Nepveu | 44 |
| US United States | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | listed | Nepveu | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | 36 | 1 in 480K | 36 | Nepveu | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Nepveu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of nevew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, nephew
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pierre Nepveub. 1450FRFrench architect
- Frédéric Nepveub. 1777FRFrench architect
- Luc Durtainb. 1881FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1881-1959)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nepveu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 people named Nepveu in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nepveu. After it come Canada, United States, Netherlands and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nepveu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 36 people named Nepveu in 2007, about 1 in 480 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nepveu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nepveuThe 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, “Nepveu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.