The Deaver surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,729 people carried this name — #7,080 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 62,500 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (4,752).
In the first U.S. census, 1790
41 families named Deaver, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 222 people lived in those households, 5.4 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 8 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 236 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Deaver in American newspapers,
1916–1930.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 42,654 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Deaver in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1980s.
83 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Deaver. The most, 20, date from the 1980s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 1.5 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Deaver.
Who carried it
People named Deaver,
with a public archive behind them.
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Michael Deaver 1938–2007 · politician -
John Blair Deaver 1855–1931 · surgeon
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Elizabeth Deaver 1891–1968
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Harriet Deaver 1895–1970
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Chester F. Deaver 1898–1988 · teacher
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Philip F. Deaver 1946–2018 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Deaver,
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 States265 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 166
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 77
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 8
- Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 3
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record Jack DeaverBorn 1946; from San Diego, California. U.S. Army, medical specialist; killed in action 1967 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam. Buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, California.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record James A. DeaverBorn 1910 in Georgia. Enlisted 1942 at Fresno, California; cook from Tulare County, California. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1965, buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery, California.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Margaret DeaverArrived at New York in 1866 aboard the Jeremiah Thompson from Liverpool, aged 21. From England.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 265 records for Deaver 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) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
France1 record
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Jack Wilson DeaverBorn 1942 in the United States; died 1993 in Paris.
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Deaver.
- Deangelo 8,205 · U.S. census
- Dearing 5,794 · U.S. census
- Deas 4,165 · U.S. census
- Deason 5,539 · U.S. census
- Deaton 14,052 · U.S. census
- Deau 150 · U.S. census
- Debacker 542 · U.S. census
- Debaere 288 · U.S. census
- Debar 268 · U.S. census
- Debard 161 · U.S. census
- Debarge 406 · U.S. census
- Debauche 447 · U.S. census
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