Given name & surname
Davenport
“trickle, drop”
Davenport is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English surname, Davenport goes back to Welsh dafn, meaning “trickle, drop.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Davenport has more than one origin: as an English surname, it comes from Middle English Devennport; as an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “descendant of Donndubhartach”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English Devennport, from Welsh dafn (“trickle, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“mist, haze”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Davenport’s family of names
In English usage, Davenport as a surname has a related form in DEVENPORT.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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