Pruvost: Surname History and Family Crest

Sharing the Pruvost name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname statistics

Between 1891 and 2000, 15,829 babies born in France were registered as Pruvost, with the most births in 1951–1960.

No reliable dictionary entry explains Pruvost, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors. What can public data say about the Pruvost family name? Quite a lot. Names that sound alike, such as Prévost and Provost, are easily confused in old records.

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