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The DEVINEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 720 30582 0 3
United States (1880 census) 256 16098 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +464 -14484 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 13 71671 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEVINEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 157 4933 0.002 20
Texas 143 11023 0.001 7
Oklahoma 44 8139 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 36 34307 0.000 3
Florida 35 38806 0.000 2
Top States for DEVINEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 157 4933 0.002 20
Oklahoma 44 8139 0.001 13
Wyoming 6 9846 0.001 12
Arkansas 27 8427 0.001 10
Mississippi 23 8005 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DEVINEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DEVINEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DEVINEY in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DEVINEY by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DEVINEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DEVINEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DEVINEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 708 98.33
White (Hispanic) 7 0.97
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DEVINEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

DEVINEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DEVINEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DEVINEY.

Similar names to DEVINEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVINEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DEVINEY

The following words are slight variants of DEVINEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.