The davenport Surname

davenport Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop’, ‘to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’.
Irish (County Tipperary): English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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davenport Family Facts

Distribution of davenport Families in the US in 1920

Number of davenport families

282-562

95-281

1-94

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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