The DEVANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,328	7118	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	511	9492	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+3817	+2374	+0.001	+6
Other Countries
Australia	115	12543	0.001	7
United Kingdom	1,544	3657	0.003	34

Top States for DEVANEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	386	5113	0.002	20
Massachusetts	376	2428	0.006	59
New Jersey	373	2583	0.004	44
Florida	309	6489	0.002	19
California	262	10164	0.001	8
Top States for DEVANEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	73	1407	0.010	97
Massachusetts	376	2428	0.006	59
New Jersey	373	2583	0.004	44
Alabama	193	3175	0.004	43
New Hampshire	45	3898	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of DEVANEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DEVANEY 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 DEVANEY 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 DEVANEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	63	1.46
White (Hispanic)	54	1.25
Asian/Pacific	33	0.76
Native American/Alaskan	26	0.6
Black/African American	11	0.25
White (Caucasian)	4,141	95.68

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

Similar names to DEVANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVANEY.

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.