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devan Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhín or Ó Daimhín (see Devine).
  2. Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit deva ‘god’ + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The devan name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the devan family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of devan Families in the US in 1920
Number of devan families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 43
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Rev. Clarence Michael Devan obit from NY 2001 laurarivers518 1
Devan in Australia katwixoe 1
laura devan b.1815 meghan ellis billings 7
Devan Family Terri Poe 2
Origin of Name Devan? FeenyDev_1 0
John and Susan Devan Fayette county PA Mary GUthrie 0
Andrew Devan b. 1827 Tipperary, IRE>Penn. donnamccarthy76 1
john devan and mary ann ryan emu711 0
Patrick Devan-Ireland to Pa UtahmamaK 2
HELP Capitola Devan DianaHansen17 1
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