Davenport

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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Edit Status Statusnot set
Contributor Contrib.anonymous on 1/2/2016
Last Editor EditorSofia on 3/20/2017  [revision history]

Meaning & History

Habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu "to drop, to trickle") and Old English port "market town".