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    The surname Devall

    A surname, carried by 1,574 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D140

    Devall: #17,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Devall #17,789, 1,574 people Devall: #17,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Devall #17,789, 1,574 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Devall is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,574 people named Devall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,482.

    #17,789
    rank among US surnames
    1,574
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #17,521)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,784Mallari1,575196,029
    #17,789Lafortune1,574196,153
    #17,798Baas1,573196,278

    Who is named Devall

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

    89% of people named Devall identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Devall

    Devall has the Soundex code D140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D140.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Devall?
    1,574 people in the United States had the surname Devall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. It ranked 17,789th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Devall?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Devall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Devall getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,482 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,574 in 2010, up 6.2%.