The Charvet surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 301 people carried this name — #65,782 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is down 1% from 305 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 2,160 people named Charvet.
54 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 61 départements, most often Ain.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
106 people named Charvet live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Charvet,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jean-Gabriel Charvet 1750–1829 · painter -
Joseph Charvet d. 1770 · silversmith
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Gratien Charvet 1826–1884 · historian
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Gratien Charvet 1828–1884 · historian
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Jean Charvet 1885–1967 · official
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Louis Charvet 1901–1987 · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Charvet.
- Charrier 552 · U.S. census
- Charron 4,241 · U.S. census
- Charry 308 · U.S. census
- Chartier 5,479 · U.S. census
- Charton 244 · U.S. census
- Charvat 760 · U.S. census
- Chary 164 · U.S. census
- Chassagne 139 · U.S. census
- Chasse 2,646 · U.S. census
- Chassereau 234 · U.S. census
- Chassin 125 · U.S. census
- Chasson 110 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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