Devlin

12,430 people in the United States were counted with the surname Devlin in the 2020 census, making it the 2,820th most common in the country. That is about one person in 24,000.

By the numbers

People: 12,430
Rank: 2,820th
How common: 1 in 24,000
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Duibhlin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Devlin

Cameron Devlin (born 1998)Australian association football player
Dean Devlin (born 1962)American actor
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 1947)Irish socialist and republican political activist
Keith Devlin (born 1947)British mathematician
Jordan Devlin (born 1990)Irish professional wrestler
Janet Devlin (born 1994)Northern Irish singer
Es Devlin (born 1971)stage designer

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

Surnames like Devlin

Also a first name

Devlin has been given to 3,442 American babies as a first name since 1957, 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.