# Davenport (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/davenport/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English from the town in Cheshire.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Welsh |
| Type | patronymic, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 55,895 |
| US rank (2010) | 608 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 5,524 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.1% (54,206 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈdævənpɔːt/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Devenport |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from Middle English Devennport, named after the River Dane + port. The first element is from Welsh dafn (“trickle, drop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“mist, haze”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó Donndubhartaigh (“descendant of Donndubhartach”), which is from donn (“brown”) + dubh (“black”) + artach (“nobleman”); see airigh.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Davenport in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 72% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 22% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Davenport in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

## People named Davenport

- Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
- Jack Davenport, British actor
- Harry Davenport, American actor (1866–1949)
- Madison Davenport, American actress
- Willie Davenport, American athletics competitor (1943–2002)
- Alice Davenport, American actress (1864–1936)
- Dorothy Davenport, American actress (1895–1977)
- Thomas Davenport, American inventor (1802–1851)
- Ira Davenport, American track athlete, baseball player, American football player and coach (1887–1941)
- Charles Benedict Davenport, American botanist, zoologist and eugenicist (1866 – 1944)
- Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic
- Lara Davenport, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist

and 7 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Deffenbaugh.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.