Davenport

Davenport is the 616th most common surname in the United States, shared by 53,635 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,573.

By the numbers

People: 53,635
Rank: 616th
How common: 1 in 5,573
Per 100,000: 17.9

Where the name comes 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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Davenport described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.2%
Black, not Hispanic 21.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Davenport

Lindsay Davenport (born 1976)American tennis player
Jack Davenport (born 1973)British actor
Harry Davenport (1866–1949)American actor
Madison Davenport (born 1996)American actress
Willie Davenport (1943–2002)American athletics competitor
Alice Davenport (1864–1936)American actress
Dorothy Davenport (1895–1977)American actress
Ira Davenport (1887–1941)American track athlete, baseball player, American football player and coach

People named Davenport with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Davenport

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.