Popularity of the last name by country

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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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