# Provost (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/provost/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation for a provost.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,742 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,062 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 35,317 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.9% (8,497 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Provis |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Provost in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Provost in the United States and Canada.

## People named Provost

- Jon Provost, American actor
- Dominique Provost-Chalkley, British-Canadian actor (born 1990)

## Similar surnames

Prevost, Probst, Propst, Propes, Purvis, Probasco, Prabhakar.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.