Devos Family History
Devos Name Meaning
Flemish (also De Vos) and Dutch (De Vos): from Middle Dutch de vos ‘the fox’ a nickname for someone with red hair or a crafty man. Alternatively a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or tavern bearing the sign of a fox. The surname De Vos is also found in South Africa while the Flemish surname in the form Devos is also common in northern France (mainly Nord). Compare Vos . English: variant of Devis a habitational name from Devizes in Wiltshire. Alternatively Devis may be a variant of Dews or Dewis the latter possibly arising from the placenames Ewyas Harold or Ewyas Lacy in Herefordshire with fused Anglo-Norman preposition de. As an English surname it may possibly also be an Anglicized form of the Swiss French surname Thévoz (see Defoe ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022