Davey

At the 2020 census, 8,879 Americans bore the surname Davey — 3,887th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,879
Rank: 3,887th
How common: 1 in 33,700
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Davey

Ed Davey (born 1965)British politician
Lewis Davey (born 2000)English athlete

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

Surnames like Davey

Also a first name

Davey has been given to 3,568 American babies as a first name since 1925, peaking in 1955. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.