Prévot Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Records tie Prévot closely to Prévost. The name is generally explained as “Provost”.

Prévot and Prévost

Without the “s” of Prévost, Prévot is a simpler written form of the same name. Other spellings include Provost.

416 Americans were listed as Prévot in the 2010 census. Between 1891 and 2000, 13,313 babies born in France were registered as Prévot, with the most births in 1951–1960. There were 704 such births in the 1890s and 1,212 in the 1990s.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Prévost and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Research your Prévot family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.