Devenish Surname
Approximately 3,089 people bear this surname
Devenish Surname Definition:
(English) Devonian [from Old English Defenas (genit. pl. Defena), a Celtic tribal name, with the Old English ethnic suff. -isc]
Devenish Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 918 | 1:29,407 | 3,949 |
| England | 689 | 1:80,868 | 8,974 |
| South Africa | 665 | 1:81,470 | 10,051 |
| United States | 299 | 1:1,212,237 | 86,130 |
| Canada | 191 | 1:192,909 | 18,967 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 137 | 1:9,956 | 1,377 |
| Scotland | 33 | 1:162,237 | 9,329 |
| Colombia | 30 | 1:1,592,469 | 11,125 |
| Venezuela | 20 | 1:1,510,204 | 20,059 |
| Jersey | 17 | 1:5,835 | 1,193 |
| New Zealand | 14 | 1:323,452 | 26,435 |
| Grenada | 11 | 1:9,867 | 804 |
| Northern Ireland | 10 | 1:184,504 | 9,341 |
| Wales | 8 | 1:386,816 | 19,671 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Saint Lucia | 5 | 1:35,756 | 1,958 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1:1,833,871 | 6,220 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 42 | 1:105,473 | 6,604 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 386 | 1:63,149 | 7,319 |
| Jersey | 8 | 1:6,485 | 1,119 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,247,739 | 24,719 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:32,656 | 2,283 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 42 | 1:1,195,683 | 67,545 |
Devenish (24) may also be a first name.
Devenish Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(English) Devonian [from Old English Defenas (genit. pl. Defena), a Celtic tribal name, with the Old English ethnic suff. -isc]
I.e. of Devonshire MIF 281*
The family first appear as gentry in co. Susaex about the year 1399. The name, clearly indicative of a Devonshire origin, is cognate with Kentish, Cornish, &c. The Irish branch, who transferred themselves to the sister island in the reign of Henry VIII., have a tradition that it is corrupted from a Saxon root signifying "deep waters," and that their original patronymic was Sutton; but there is no evidence of the truth of either statement. Le Deveneys, Deveneys, and Devenist are found in H.R., and there is an Isabella la Deveneis.
Local. Signifies deep water. This surname was given to an ancestor of the family who was early settled at the confluence of the rivers Isis and Thames, near Oxford, England. Dwfn, Welsh, deep; uisge, Gaelic, water.
Devenish is an old Dorset name, though not now sufficiently frequent to be placed in my list. A gentle family of Devenish resided at Gillingham in the 17th century (H.). Devenish was the name of a Weymouth chief magistrate in 1828 (E.).
Devenish Demographics
Average Male Devenish Height
177.65 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Devenish Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Devenish Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Devenish is found most in Australia. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Devenish? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 143,929th most frequently used surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 2,359,193 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 30 percent of Devenish are found; 30 percent are found in Australasia and 30 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand. Devenish is also the 2,187,323rd most frequent given name worldwide It is held by 24 people.
Devenish is most commonly occurring in Australia, where it is held by 918 people, or 1 in 29,407. In Australia it is most prevalent in: New South Wales, where 35 percent live, Western Australia, where 29 percent live and Queensland, where 18 percent live. Apart from Australia this surname is found in 35 countries. It also occurs in England, where 22 percent live and South Africa, where 22 percent live.
Devenish Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Devenish has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the surname expanded 178 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it expanded 712 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 1,100 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 95 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Devenish Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally Anglican (74%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Devenish surname are 21.8% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 68.57% registered with the political party.
The amount Devenish earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 53.91% more than the national average, earning R 365,748 per year; in Colombia they earn 26.74% more than the national average, earning $28,772,500 COP per year; in United States they earn 25.23% more than the national average, earning $54,034 USD per year and in Canada they earn 17.92% more than the national average, earning $58,587 CAD per year.
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