Definition of "Davis"

A surname

1. A Welsh and English surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Davies.  examples

2. An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Damháin, Ó Daimhín (whence Devine).  examples

3. An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Mac Dáibhidh (whence McDavid).  examples

A male given name transferred from the surname.  examples

A placename

1. An unincorporated community in Saskatchewan, Canada; named for politician Thomas Osborne Davis.  examples

2. A locale in the United States.

   1. A city in Yolo County, California; named for agriculturalist Jerome C. Davis.  examples

   2. A city in Oklahoma; named for early settler Samuel H. Davis.  examples

   3. A village in Illinois; named for founder S. J. Davis.  examples

   4. A town in Tucker County, West Virginia; named for senator Henry Gassaway Davis, or his family.  examples

   5. A census-designated place in North Carolina.  examples

   6. A town in South Dakota; named for an early settler.  examples

   7. An unincorporated community in Missouri.  examples

   8. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.  examples

University of California, Davis.  examples