Devonish Surname
Approximately 1,504 people bear this surname
Devonish Surname Definition:
(English) Devonian [from Old English Defenas (genit. pl. Defena), a Celtic tribal name, with the Old English ethnic suff. -isc]
Devonish Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 612 | 1:592,253 | 48,330 |
| Barbados | 311 | 1:924 | 227 |
| England | 220 | 1:253,264 | 20,438 |
| Canada | 75 | 1:491,275 | 42,011 |
| Guyana | 68 | 1:11,209 | 1,627 |
| Jamaica | 45 | 1:63,777 | 3,321 |
| Venezuela | 35 | 1:862,974 | 13,724 |
| Panama | 22 | 1:177,830 | 5,396 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 21 | 1:64,951 | 5,118 |
| New Zealand | 16 | 1:283,020 | 24,643 |
| Wales | 16 | 1:193,408 | 12,484 |
| Australia | 14 | 1:1,928,264 | 88,951 |
| South Africa | 13 | 1:4,167,516 | 132,322 |
| Grenada | 11 | 1:9,867 | 804 |
| British Virgin Islands | 7 | 1:4,513 | 453 |
| Anguilla | 5 | 1:2,687 | 256 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 1:34,329 | 862 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 | 1:99,171 | 2,137 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 33 | 1:738,648 | 34,140 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Devonish (22) may also be a first name.
Devonish 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]
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.).
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Devonish Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Devonish Come From? nationality or country of origin
Devonish is found most in The United States. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Devonish? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 261,034th most numerous family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 4,845,443 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 81 percent of Devonish are found; 46 percent are found in North America and 46 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Devonish is also the 2,301,746th most frequent given name throughout the world. It is borne by 22 people.
The surname Devonish is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 612 people, or 1 in 592,253. In The United States Devonish is most common in: New York, where 45 percent are found, New Jersey, where 10 percent are found and Maryland, where 8 percent are found. Barring The United States it is found in 25 countries. It is also found in Barbados, where 21 percent are found and England, where 15 percent are found.
Devonish Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Devonish has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Devonish last name increased 61,200 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 667 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Devonish Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Devonish last name are 31.92% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 85.15% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Devonish earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 50.02% less than the national average, earning R 118,764 per year; in United States they earn 3.18% less than the national average, earning $41,776 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.03% more than the national average, earning $54,170 CAD per year.
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