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The DEVEREUX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,328 18982 0 5
United States (1880 census) 443 10652 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +885 -8330 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 497 3238 0.003 30
United Kingdom 1,928 3065 0.004 42
Top States for DEVEREUX by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 151 14731 0.000 4
Illinois 132 8983 0.001 11
Florida 67 22022 0.000 4
New York 65 25291 0.000 3
Virginia 62 9733 0.001 9
Top States for DEVEREUX by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 34 2723 0.006 56
Colorado 51 9415 0.001 12
Missouri 60 10295 0.001 11
Illinois 132 8983 0.001 11
Oregon 35 11027 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of DEVEREUX

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 74 5.57
Mixed Race 18 1.36
Asian/Pacific 17 1.28
White (Caucasian) 1,200 90.36
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DEVEREUX in historical publications

(origin: Fr.) D'Evereux, from Evereux, a town in Normandy.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DEVEREUX. "Of this family, which had its surname from Eatgux, a town in Nonnandy, and came into England with the Conqueror, there were divers generations in England before they became barons of the realm." Banks. Bar. i. 287.

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 DEVEREUX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVEREUX.

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 DEVEREUX

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