Devito

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Devito is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rare spelling of Italian De Vito.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 39K
  • CACanada1 in 42K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 63K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K

across 14 countries

Sources
180

77K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20K

Jamaica

Meaning & origin

Rare spelling of Italian De Vito.

Sources 1

Where in the world

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Devito is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈8.6K69K rec.1 in 39K7.8KDevito180
PK Pakistan≈5.9K79 rec.1 in 40KDevito1
GB United Kingdom≈1K3.1K rec.1 in 63KDevito26
CA Canada≈8951.6K rec.1 in 42KDevito41
AU Australia≈303796 rec.1 in 84KDevito18
DE Germany≈145180 rec.1 in 554KDevito20
JM Jamaica≈144239 rec.1 in 20KDevito2
NZ New Zealand≈143156 rec.1 in 35KDevito2
NL Netherlands≈138234 rec.1 in 125KDevito9
CH Switzerland≈9762 rec.1 in 86K89Devito11
SG Singapore≈73101 rec.1 in 85KDevito2
AT Austria≈6238 rec.1 in 143KDevito4

Roughly 8.6K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 39K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • English77K88%
  • Spanish5.2K6%
  • Italian1.3K1%
  • German4641%
  • Portuguese4011%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English76,98688%
Spanish5,2136%
Italian1,2821%
German4641%
Portuguese4011%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name

19201940196019802000Tommy DeVito, b. 1928Danny DeVito, b. 1944Karla DeVito, b. 1953Tony DeVito, b. 1972Lucy DeVito, b. 1983Mike DeVito, b. 1984Gracie DeVito, b. 1985Jake DeVito, b. 1987Tommy DeVito, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Devito
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107.8K#4,528
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.7K#4,252
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.1K#4,821
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)490#17,409
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)418
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)351
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202489#12,103
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)29
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202422#2,325
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202420#10,414
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)16#94,489
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)15

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Devito?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Devito (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Devito have the most bearers?
We estimate about 8.6 thousand people bear Devito in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled devito.
Where is Devito most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Devito is densest in Jamaica — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Devito mean?
Recorded meaning: Rare spelling of Italian De Vito.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Devito”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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