Devonish Surname

261,034th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,504 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Barbados

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

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6121:592,25348,330
Barbados3111:924227
England2201:253,26420,438
Canada751:491,27542,011
Guyana681:11,2091,627
Jamaica451:63,7773,321
Venezuela351:862,97413,724
Panama221:177,8305,396
Trinidad and Tobago211:64,9515,118
New Zealand161:283,02024,643
Wales161:193,40812,484
Australia141:1,928,26488,951
South Africa131:4,167,516132,322
Grenada111:9,867804
British Virgin Islands71:4,513453
Anguilla51:2,687256
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Turks and Caicos Islands11:34,329862
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Saint Lucia11:178,7813,800
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Antigua and Barbuda11:99,1712,137
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England331:738,64834,140
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

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]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

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.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

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.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

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.).

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Devonish Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Devonish Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Devonish is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. For other possible spellings of Devonish click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Devonish? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 261,034th most commonly used surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 4,845,443 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 81 percent of Devonish live; 46 percent live in North America and 46 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,301,746th most commonly held first name internationally, held by 22 people.

The last name Devonish is most commonly held 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 live, New Jersey, where 10 percent live and Maryland, where 8 percent live. Besides The United States this last name occurs in 25 countries. It also occurs in Barbados, where 21 percent live and England, where 15 percent live.

Devonish Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Devonish has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the 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 bearing the Devonish surname are 31.92% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 85.15% registered to vote for the political 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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