Davy

At the 2020 census, 3,370 Americans bore the surname Davy — 9,270th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 88,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,370
Rank: 9,270th
How common: 1 in 88,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

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 Davy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.8%
Black, not Hispanic 21.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Davy

Humphry Davy (1778–1829)British chemist
Nadia Davy (born 1980)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Davy

Also a first name

Davy has been given to 3,008 American babies as a first name since 1917, 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.