Davis

1,074,448 people in the United States were counted with the surname Davis in the 2020 census, making it the 9th most common in the country. That is about one person in 278.

By the numbers

People: 1,074,448
Rank: 9th
How common: 1 in 278
Per 100,000: 359.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.6%
Black, not Hispanic 30.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Davis

Bette Davis (1908–1989)American actress
Miles Davis (1926–1991)American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
Angela Davis (born 1944)American political activist, scholar, and author
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889)President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
Viola Davis (born 1965)American actress and producer
Geena Davis (born 1956)American actress
Raymond Davis Jr. (1914–2006)American scientist
Kristin Davis (born 1965)American actress

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

Surnames like Davis

Also a first name

Davis has been given to 33,114 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2007. 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.