The Daughtry surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,816 people carried this name — #5,925 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 50,800 people counted. That is up 10% from 5,301 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Daughtry surname

Reduced variant of Daughtery.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Daughtry» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a local name, from where the family lived: ‘of Dawtrey’.

An early record he cites: Robert de Alta Ripa, Yorkshire, 1273 — Hundred Rolls.

His entry covers Dawtrey, Daughtry, Daltree, Daltry and Daltrey.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 233 · public domain.

In print

Daughtry in American newspapers,
1894–1926.

Newspaper page from Gunnison News-champion carrying the name Daughtry
Gunnison News-champion 1917-09-07
Newspaper page from Birmingham Age-herald carrying the name Daughtry
Birmingham Age-herald 1894-10-28
Newspaper page from The Montgomery Advertiser carrying the name Daughtry
The Montgomery Advertiser 1926-07-18

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 6,043 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Daughtry in Australian newspapers,
1900s–1950s.

65 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Daughtry. The most, 23, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 3.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 51
New South Wales 13
South Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Daughtry.

Who carried it

People named Daughtry,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Dean Daughtry
    Dean Daughtry 1946–2023 · keyboardist
  • Leila Denmark 1898–2012 · physician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Daughtry,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States269 records

269 records of the Daughtry name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 181
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 64
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 13
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 5
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Jasper J. Daughtry

    Born 1922 in Alabama. Enlisted 1942 at Fort McClellan; textile mill worker from Lee County. U.S. Army veteran; died 1997, buried at Garden Hills Cemetery, Opelika, Alabama.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Henry Daughtry

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1944, died 1992; buried at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Pennsylvania.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Edward Daughtry

    Born 1906 in Great Britain. Registered as a foreign national in Westchester County, New York, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 269 records for Daughtry in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Australia3 records

3 records of the Daughtry name in Australia
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 1
  • Tasmanian Names Index 1
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 1
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Thomas Daughtry

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Rodney, sailing from Portland (Dorset) in 1850. Native of Kent.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Harry Daughtry

    Arrived in Queensland in 1883 aboard the Nowshera, aged 18.

    Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 2 of 3 records for Daughtry in Australia.

Counts: Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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