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    The surname Nave

    A Spanish surname, carried by 4,946 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex N100

    Nave: #6,819 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Nave #6,819, 4,946 people Nave: #6,819 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Nave #6,819, 4,946 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nave is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    * As an English surname, from the noun knave. * As a German surname Näve, variant of Neff, see Neve. * As a Portuguese surname, from nave (“plain”), borrowed from Spanish nava, compare Nava.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,946 people named Nave in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,423 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,700.

    #6,819
    rank among US surnames
    4,946
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #6,637)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,814Breckenridge4,94962,385
    #6,817Abrahamson4,94862,398
    #6,818Steffens4,94762,411
    #6,819Vizcarra4,94662,423
    #6,821Hayman4,94562,436

    Who is named Nave

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    82% of people named Nave identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Nave

    Nave has the Soundex code N100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N100.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Nave come from?
    * As an English surname, from the noun knave. * As a German surname Näve, variant of Neff, see Neve. * As a Portuguese surname, from nave (“plain”), borrowed from Spanish nava, compare Nava.
    How common is the surname Nave?
    4,946 people in the United States had the surname Nave in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,423 Americans. It ranked 6,819th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nave?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Nave identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Nave getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,700 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,946 in 2010, up 5.2%.