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The DEVENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 636 33782 0 2
United States (1880 census) 175 21275 0 3
Change since 1880 +461 -12507 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEVENS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 85 8067 0.002 17
New York 61 26904 0.000 3
California 55 35207 0.000 2
Massachusetts 47 14501 0.001 7
Illinois 45 26117 0.000 4
Top States for DEVENS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 16 5427 0.003 26
Minnesota 85 8067 0.002 17
New Hampshire 17 8179 0.001 14
Massachusetts 47 14501 0.001 7
Virginia 39 13816 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of DEVENS

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

Ethnic distribution of DEVENS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 613 96.38
Mixed Race 8 1.26
White (Hispanic) 8 1.26
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of DEVENS in historical publications

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

Similar names to DEVENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVENS.

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 DEVENS

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