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The DEVILLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,102 7490 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 318 13659 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +3784 +6169 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 53 24140 0 3
United Kingdom 352 11440 0.001 8
Top States for DEVILLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 2,311 272 0.052 517
Texas 361 6036 0.002 17
California 210 13091 0.001 6
Florida 136 14133 0.001 9
Ohio 90 15603 0.001 8
Top States for DEVILLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 2,311 272 0.052 517
South Dakota 64 1926 0.008 85
Washington DC 15 3988 0.003 26
Alaska 14 7729 0.002 22
Oklahoma 76 5957 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of DEVILLE

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 DEVILLE 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 DEVILLE 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 DEVILLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 593 14.46
White (Hispanic) 108 2.63
Mixed Race 68 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 33 0.8
Asian/Pacific 16 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,284 80.06

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

Meaning of DEVILLE in historical publications

(origin: French.) De Ville, from the village or town. Some write this name Devil!

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


Similar names to DEVILLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVILLE.

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 DEVILLE

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