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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

'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.

Meaning of DEVANEY in historical publications

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

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.

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

Potential typos for DEVANEY

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