Devon is a surname.
Those bearing it include:
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- Devon (1977–), adult film actress
- Dayna Devon (born 1970)
- Lyn Devon (fl. c. 2000)
- Mari Devon (born 1960), American voice actress a.k.a. Jane Alan
- Richard Devon (1926–2010), American character actor
Devon is a surname.
Those bearing it include:
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Easterbrook is a surname from Devon, England. Notable people with the surname include:
Langtry is an English surname of habitational origin which derives from three settlements in Devon, Oxfordshire, and Lancashire called Langtree, from the Old English lang, long ‘long’, ‘tall’ + treow ‘tree’.
Zhōu is a Chinese-language surname. In places which use the Wade–Giles romanization such as Taiwan, Zhou is usually spelled as "Chou" (ㄓㄡ), and it may also be spelled as "Chiau", "Chau", "Chao", "Chew", "Chow", "Chiu", "Cho", "Chu", "Jhou", "Jou", "Djou", "Jue", "Jow", or "Joe". Zhou ranks as the 10th most common surname in Mainland China as of 2019. In 2013 it was found to be the 10th most common name, shared by 25,200,000 people or 1.900% of the population, with the province with the most being Hunan. Derived from the Zhou dynasty, it has been one of the ten most common surnames in China since the Yuan dynasty. It is the 5th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. The Korean surname, "Joo" or "Ju", and The Vietnamese surname, "Châu" or "Chu", are both derived from and written with the same Chinese character (周). The character also means "around". Zhōu also stands for other, rare Chinese family names, 舟, 州，and 洲.
Hynes is a surname, many examples of which originate as the anglicisation the Irish name Ó hEidhin.
Addams is a patronymic surname of English origin from the given name Adam. There are other spellings. Notable people with the surname include:
Scott is a surname of Scottish origin. It is first attributed to Uchtredus filius Scoti who is mentioned in the charter recording the foundation of Holyrood Abbey and Selkirk in 1120, the border Riding clans who settled Peeblesshire in the 10th century and the family lineage of the Duke of Buccleuch.
Coleridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Smithers is a surname of English origin. It derives from the Middle English term "smyther", referring to a metalsmith, and is thus related to the common occupational surname Smith. The name Smither is related.
McTavish is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin, deriving from a Gaelic form of Thomas meaning “twin”. Notable people with the surname include:
Plowman is an occupational surname based on plowman, the user of a plow. Notable people with the surname include:
Hendryx is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dotson is a Welsh surname originating from the Cheshire region. This surname is a patronymic of the Middle English name "Dodde." Originally derived from the Germanic root "dodd" meaning "something rounded", used to denote a short, rotund man. Notable people with this surname include:
Conway is a Welsh, Irish & Scottish surname. It can be an anglicized spelling of Conwy, of the Irish names Conbhuidhe or Ó Connmhacháin, or of the Scottish names Mac Conmheadha or Mac Connmhaigh.
Kerslake is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cheung is a Cantonese romanization of several Chinese surnames, including the one written as 張 in Traditional characters and 张 in Simplified characters, and the one written in both Traditional characters and Simplified characters as 章 (zoeng1). Sometimes, 蔣 is also spelled as Cheung instead of Chiang/Jiang due to its Cantonese pronunciation.
Prescott is a surname of English origin, a habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire and Devon, all of which are named from Old English preost 'priest' + cot 'cottage', 'dwelling'. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.
Kravits, Kravitz, Kravit are Yiddish-language occupational surnames derived from the Ukrainian word кравець, "tailor". The surname may refer to:
Seron is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Char is a French feminine given name that is a variation of Chardonnay, Charlene, and Charlotte and a feminine form of Charles. Char is also used as a variation of Charmaine. Notable people with this name include the following:
Shu is a Chinese surname. It is 43rd in the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 熊紀舒屈. Šumuru sinicized their clan name to the Chinese surnames Shu (舒), Xu (徐) or Xiao (蕭) after the demise of the Qing dynasty.