Neveu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Old French neveu ‘nephew’ (Latin nepos, genitive nepotis), presumably denoting the nephew of some great personage
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəvø/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neveu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 200K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 375K
- BEBelgium1 in 404K
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)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200K (inferred from the name graph)
888 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old French neveu ‘nephew’ (Latin nepos, genitive nepotis), presumably denoting the nephew of some great personage.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neveu 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 | 888 | 1 in 375K | 914 | Neveu | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 84 | 1 in 541K | 84 | Neveu | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 29 | 1 in 404K | 29 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | Neveu | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | Neveu | 2 |
888 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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)
Neveu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Cogn.: Croatian: Nestorovic. nepotis); for the application(s) as a surname, cf. Neve. Dims.: Croatian: Neskovic, Nes(ov)ic. Vars.: Neveux, Nepveu; Leneveu.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In French, nephew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de l’ancien français neveu, ‘petit-fils’
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In fro, alternative form of nevod
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alfred Neveub. 1890CHbobsledder (1890-1975)
- Marcelle Neveub. 1906FRFrench athletics competitor (1906–1993)
- Ginette Neveub. 1919FRFrench musician (1919–1949)
- Gérald Neveub. 1921FRFrench writer (1921–1960)
- Louis-Paul Neveub. 1931CACanadian politician (1931–2017)
- André Neveub. 1946FRFrench physicist
- Patrice Neveub. 1954FRFrench footballer
- Cyril Neveub. 1956FRFrench racing driver
- Franck Neveub. 1958FRFrench linguist
- Sylvaine Neveub. 1968FRFrench chemist
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 914 | #25,430 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 906 | #28,052 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 888 | #27,228 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 84 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 42 | #21,267 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 29 | #37,774 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #8,027 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Neveu?
- A machine transcription gives /nəvø/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Neveu mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old French neveu ‘nephew’ (Latin nepos, genitive nepotis), presumably denoting the nephew of some great personage. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Neveu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 888 people named Neveu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neveu.
- Where is Neveu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neveu is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 200 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Neveu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 888 people named Neveu in 2010, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neveuThe 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, “Neveu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.