How common is the surname Davenport?

55,895 people in the United States had the surname Davenport in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,524 Americans. It ranked 608th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Davenport?

Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player, followed by Jack Davenport.

Where is the surname Davenport most common?

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

How do you pronounce Davenport?

Davenport is /ˈdævənpɔːt/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Davenport getting more or less common?

More common. 54,206 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 55,895 in 2010, up 3.1%.

Is Davenport also a first name?

Yes. Davenport is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Davenport

A Welsh patronymic surname, carried by 55,895 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈdævənpɔːt/ 3 syllables Soundex D151

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Davenport is more common than 99.6% of them.

Origin

Welsh origin

* 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.

Davenport is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

One of 60 Welsh surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 55,895 people named Davenport in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 5,524 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 54,206.

#608

rank among US surnames

55,895

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #561)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#599	Collier	56,380	5,476
#600	Zuniga	56,347	5,479
#601	Carey	56,322	5,482
#602	Wilcox	56,286	5,485
#603	Melendez	56,230	5,491
#604	Poole	56,226	5,491
#605	Roberson	56,180	5,496

Who is named Davenport

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

72% of people named Davenport identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Davenports

19 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lindsay Davenport
American tennis player, born 1976
Jack Davenport
British actor, born 1973
Harry Davenport
American actor (1866–1949)
Madison Davenport
American actress, born 1996
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, 1903–1996
Lara Davenport
Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, born 1983

Notable Davenports come mostly from the United States (16), the United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Devenport

Davenport has the Soundex code D151, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D151.

Other Welsh surnames

All 60 Welsh surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Davenport come from?: * 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…
How common is the surname Davenport?: 55,895 people in the United States had the surname Davenport in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,524 Americans. It ranked 608th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Davenport?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Davenport identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Davenport?: Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player, followed by Jack Davenport.
Where is the surname Davenport most common?: Wikidata records people named Davenport in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
How do you pronounce Davenport?: Davenport is /ˈdævənpɔːt/, 3 syllables.
What type of surname is Davenport?: Davenport is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Davenport getting more or less common?: More common. 54,206 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 55,895 in 2010, up 3.1%.
What are other spellings of Davenport?: Devenport.
Is Davenport also a first name?: Yes. Davenport is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.