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The devon Surname

devon Name Meaning and History

  1. English: regional name for someone from the county of Devon. In origin, this is from an ancient British tribal name, Latin Dumnonii, perhaps meaning ‘worshipers of the god Dumnonos’.
  2. Irish (County Louth): variant of Devine.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of devon Families in the US in 1920
Number of devon families
 11-20
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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