Popularity of the last name by country

United States

• California (8,151)
• New York (6,124)
• Pennsylvania (4,354)
• Maryland (2,804)
• Virginia (2,738)
• Utah (2,073)
• Colorado (1,882)
• Massachusetts (1,684)
• Illinois (1,650)
• Ohio (1,456)
• New Jersey (1,251)
• Wisconsin (1,135)
• Connecticut (1,028)
• Missouri (1,007)
• Indiana (818)
• Michigan (697)
• Washington (649)
• North Carolina (606)
• Minnesota (571)
• Iowa (539)
• Kansas (522)
• Florida (385)
• Idaho (385)
• Montana (370)
• Georgia (361)
• Nebraska (348)
• Maine (333)
• Kentucky (323)
• South Carolina (304)
• Texas (287)
• Oregon (265)
• Hawaii (260)
• Arizona (230)
• Tennessee (203)
• West Virginia (199)
• Alabama (186)
• North Dakota (186)
• Louisiana (171)
• Wyoming (156)
• Vermont (153)
• Arkansas (140)
• Delaware (129)
• Nevada (119)
• South Dakota (113)
• Oklahoma (102)
• Mississippi (100)
• New Hampshire (76)
• New Mexico (75)
• Rhode Island (75)
• Alaska (35)

All countries

• United Kingdom (702,342)
• United States (49,144)
• Australia (32,287)
• New Zealand (13,475)
• France (8,722)
• Ireland (4,692)
• Canada (3,581)
• Unknown country (2,560)
• Belgium (1,289)
• Netherlands (1,280)
• Germany (891)
• Indonesia (816)
• Switzerland (810)
• India (525)
• Italy (451)
• South Africa (418)
• Russian Federation (391)
• Czech republic (333)
• Sweden (278)
• Argentina (249)
• Egypt (194)
• Israel (159)
• China (154)
• Turkey (148)
• Spain (142)
• Greece (137)
• Austria (112)
• Colombia (107)
• Chile (103)
• Hungary (101)
• Mexico (98)
• Jamaica (84)
• Iraq (78)
• Algeria (70)
• Myanmar (64)
• Singapore (64)
• Tunisia (60)
• Gibraltar (59)
• Estonia (52)
• Poland (51)

Origine of last name

DAVIES : Welsh and English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davis">Davis</a> a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davy">Davy</a> the common English form of the personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/David">David</a> in the late medieval and early modern periods (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davey">Davey</a>).