Davïs
surname · Latin script
Davïs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,116,357 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010, which ranks it 7th. In Gabon it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from English Davis.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 150(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 154
- USUnited States1 in 298
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150 (inferred from the name graph)
1,116,357 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Davis in US United States, GA Gabon and D'Avis in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from English Davis.
Cited for this meaning 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Davïs is found
(measured from records)Davïs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #716 | 1,116,357 | 1 in 298 | 1.1M | Davis | 358 |
| IN India | — | 3,483 | 1 in 381K | 3.5K | — | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 970 | 1 in 52K | 970 | D'Avis | 66 |
| GY Guyana | — | 910 | 1 in 824 | 910 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 794 | 1 in 6.4K | 794 | — | 52 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 674 | 1 in 150 | 674 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 349 | 1 in 154 | 349 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | #6 | — | — | — | Davis | 25 |
1,116,357 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Davïs mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from English Davis. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Davïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Davïs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davis. After it come India, Spain, Guyana and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Davïs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Davïs is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 150 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Davïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,116,357 people named Davïs in 2010, about 1 in 298 residents.
- How common is Davïs compared with other names?
- In the United States, Davïs is the 716th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dav%C3%AFsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Davïs” — ranked 7th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.