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The DEVRIES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,958 2567 0.005 48
United States (1880 census) 337 13076 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +12621 +10509 +0.004 +41
Other Countries
Australia 206 7356 0.001 13
United Kingdom 62 25533 0 1
Top States for DEVRIES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 2,938 272 0.030 296
California 1,154 2527 0.003 34
Illinois 864 1344 0.007 70
Iowa 742 317 0.025 254
Florida 626 3043 0.004 39
Top States for DEVRIES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 265 192 0.035 351
Michigan 2,938 272 0.030 296
Iowa 742 317 0.025 254
Montana 152 595 0.017 168
Minnesota 587 784 0.012 119

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

Classification and Origin of DEVRIES

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DEVRIES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DEVRIES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 179 1.38
Mixed Race 124 0.96
Asian/Pacific 88 0.68
Black/African American 41 0.32
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.17
White (Caucasian) 12,503 96.49

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

Meaning of DEVRIES in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEVRIES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVRIES.

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 DEVRIES

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