The MCDEVITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,308	4462	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	74	38375	0	1
Change since 1880	+7234	+33913	+N/A	+26
Other Countries
Australia	163	9105	0.001	10
United Kingdom	896	5749	0.002	19

Top States for MCDEVITT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,425	966	0.012	116
New Jersey	666	1376	0.008	79
California	502	5760	0.001	15
Massachusetts	418	2182	0.007	66
Florida	399	5078	0.002	25
Top States for MCDEVITT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,425	966	0.012	116
New Hampshire	98	2030	0.008	79
Rhode Island	83	2027	0.008	79
New Jersey	666	1376	0.008	79
Delaware	61	2345	0.008	78

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

Classification and Origin of MCDEVITT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	78	1.07
Mixed Race	59	0.81
Asian/Pacific	37	0.51
Black/African American	16	0.22
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.14
White (Caucasian)	7,108	97.26

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

Similar names to MCDEVITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCDEVITT.

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.