Davila

At the 2020 census, 44,850 Americans bore the surname Davila — 755th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,664.

By the numbers

People: 44,850
Rank: 755th
How common: 1 in 6,664
Per 100,000: 15.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Dávila (“from Ávila”) or from Galician Davila (“from Vila”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Davila

Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994)Colombian writer and philosopher
Pedro Arias Dávila (1440–1531)Royal Governor of Panama (c.1440-1531)
Ulises Dávila (born 1991)Mexican footballer
Fidel Dávila Arrondo (1878–1962)Spanish general and noble
Manuela d'Ávila (born 1981)Brazilian politician and journalist
José Luis González Dávila (1942–1995)Mexican footballer
Carlos Dávila (1887–1955)Chilean diplomat, journalist and politician
Miguel R. Dávila (1856–1927)President of Honduras

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

Surnames like Davila

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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.