The DAVIES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	32,165	988	0.012	119
United States (1880 census)	4,274	1447	0.009	85
Change since 1880	+27891	+459	+0.003	+34
Other Countries
Australia	18,745	46	0.115	1,147
United Kingdom	202,990	6	0.442	4,420

Top States for DAVIES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,757	792	0.011	111
Pennsylvania	2,245	506	0.018	183
Florida	2,199	853	0.014	138
New York	2,118	756	0.011	112
Ohio	1,484	833	0.013	131
Top States for DAVIES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	1,011	205	0.045	453
Idaho	345	414	0.027	267
Washington	1,347	448	0.023	229
Montana	174	512	0.019	193
Oregon	640	550	0.019	187

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DAVIES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DAVIES 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DAVIES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DAVIES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	470	1.46
Mixed Race	412	1.28
Asian/Pacific	190	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	100	0.31
White (Caucasian)	29,380	91.34
Black/African American	1,611	5.01

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

Meaning of DAVIES in historical publications

DAVIES. See David. Owing to the commonness of the Welsh patronymical use of Davies, this name stands fifth in point of numerousness m England and Wales, yielding priority only to Smith, Jones, Williams, and Taylor. In the XVI. Ann. Rep. of the Registrar Gen., the number of Williamses registered within a given period was 21,930, Taylors 10,775, and Davises 14,983 ; but as Davis is to all intents and purposes identical with Davies, bj' adding in 0200 Davises, this name numbers 21,188 individuals, beating the Taylors out of the field, and well-nigh vanquishing the Williamses. In fact Ijy taking in the Davisses and the Daveses, I believe the aggregate of the name would stand next after Smith and Jones for numerousness.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to DAVIES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAVIES.

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.