Devine

Devine is the 1,522nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,877 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,877
Rank: 1,522nd
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of either of two Irish surnames, Ó Duibhín (“descendant of Duibhín”), a byname from a hypocoristic form of dubh (“black”), or Ó Daimhín (“descendant of Daimhín”), a byname from a hypocoristic form of damh (“stag”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Devine

Adam DeVine (born 1983)American actor, comedian and writer
Loretta Devine (born 1949)American actress
Andy Devine (1905–1977)American actor
Ava Devine (born 1974)American pornographic actress
Sophie Devine (born 1989)New Zealand sportswoman

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

Surnames like Devine

Also a first name

Devine has been given to 1,619 American babies as a first name since 1955, peaking in 1992. 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.