Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- London (81,573)
- Gloucestershire (68,606)
- Warwickshire (56,525)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (52,228)
- Kent (43,723)
- Lancashire (34,163)
- Staffordshire (33,224)
- Wiltshire (29,428)
- Dorset (25,261)
- Shropshire (23,389)
- Surrey (22,566)
- Somerset (18,604)
- Hampshire (15,400)
- Essex (13,983)
- Derbyshire (10,687)
- Cornwall (8,135)
- North Yorkshire (7,822)
- Berkshire (7,720)
- Norfolk (7,150)
- Hertfordshire (6,612)
- Devon (6,481)
- Northamptonshire (5,906)
- Cheshire (5,819)
- County Durham (5,074)
- Buckinghamshire (4,983)
- Gwent (4,973)
- Dyfed (4,503)
- Cambridgeshire (4,267)
- Oxfordshire (4,133)
- Cumbria (3,878)
- Lincolnshire (3,817)
- Avon (3,705)
- East Sussex (3,176)
- Leicestershire (3,137)
- Northumberland (3,111)
- Suffolk (3,107)
- Bedfordshire (2,798)
- Nottinghamshire (2,269)
- Strathclyde (2,195)
- Antrim (1,966)
- Powys (1,811)
- Cleveland (1,519)
- Gwynedd (1,096)
- Londonderry (1,063)
- Mid Glamorgan (922)
- Lothian (908)
- West Midlands (897)
- West Yorkshire (859)
- West Sussex (816)
- Merseyside (707)
- South Glamorgan (702)
- Tyne and Wear (553)
- Armagh (548)
- Down (534)
- Clwyd (500)
- South Yorkshire (462)
- West Glamorgan (436)
- Grampian (404)
- Isle of Man (370)
- Isle of Wight (342)
All countries
- United States (1,186,459)
- United Kingdom (698,656)
- Australia (46,545)
- Ireland (40,973)
- France (36,609)
- New Zealand (26,868)
- Canada (20,176)
- Unknown country (16,815)
- Switzerland (5,151)
- Germany (4,251)
- Netherlands (3,341)
- Italy (2,504)
- Belgium (2,082)
- Mexico (2,051)
- Colombia (1,392)
- Spain (993)
- India (883)
- Russian Federation (872)
- China (829)
- Jamaica (761)
- Poland (726)
- Indonesia (640)
- Greece (610)
- Argentina (580)
- Hungary (523)
- Peru (501)
- South Africa (452)
- Sweden (425)
- Cuba (419)
- Austria (389)
- Brazil (350)
- Philippines (350)
- Denmark (329)
- Paraguay (318)
- Panama (317)
- Turkey (308)
- Lebanon (290)
- Portugal (267)
- Egypt (261)
- Ukraine (242)
Origine of last name
DAVIS : 1: English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’ equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd the Welsh form of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/David">David</a>. The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davies">Davies</a>). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.2: Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McDevitt">McDevitt</a>. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davies">Davies</a>.3: In some cases also an Americanized form (actually an adoption of the name in 1 above) of Jewish <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Davidovich">Davidovich</a> and of its cognate Davidsohn.
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