Devenay Surname
Approximately 60 people bear this surname
Devenay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 52 | 1:102,958 | 6,964 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 8 | 1:467,902 | 12,875 |
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
Devenay (23) may also be a first name.
Devenay Demographics
Average Devenay Salary in
Scotland
£22,860
Per year
Average Salary in
Scotland
£27,018
Per year
Devenay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Devenay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Devenay occurs most in Scotland. It may also appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Devenay.
How Common Is The Last Name Devenay? popularity and diffusion
The last name Devenay is the 2,483,783rd most frequently occurring family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 121,459,099 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 90 percent of Devenay live; 88 percent live in Northern Europe and 88 percent live in British Isles. It is also the 2,239,265th most widely held first name world-wide It is held by 23 people.
The last name is most widely held in Scotland, where it is borne by 52 people, or 1 in 102,958. In Scotland Devenay is mostly found in: Inverclyde, where 42 percent are found, Renfrewshire, where 27 percent are found and West Dunbartonshire, where 12 percent are found. Other than Scotland it occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 5 percent are found and The United States, where 5 percent are found.
Devenay Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Devenay has changed over time. In Scotland the number of people bearing the Devenay last name rose 650 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in England it contracted 86 percent between 1881 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Devenay
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