The DEVOY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	701	31271	0	3
United States (1880 census)	254	16159	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+447	-15112	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	79	17432	0	5
United Kingdom	441	9704	0.001	10

Top States for DEVOY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	75	27199	0.000	2
Michigan	75	15226	0.001	8
New York	55	29715	0.000	3
Illinois	49	24423	0.000	4
Indiana	49	12667	0.001	8
Top States for DEVOY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	16	8669	0.001	13
Delaware	8	13415	0.001	10
Wyoming	4	13994	0.001	8
Indiana	49	12667	0.001	8
Michigan	75	15226	0.001	8

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

Classification and Origin of DEVOY

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 DEVOY 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 DEVOY 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 DEVOY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	673	96.01
White (Hispanic)	11	1.57
Mixed Race	7	1
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.86
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to DEVOY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEVOY.

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.