Devereux

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| region = Wales, Ireland and England

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| origin = Wales, Herefordshire

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| otherfamilies = D'Évreux ("of Évreux", France), Devereaux and Deveraux

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Devereux is a Norman surname. Derived form of D'Evreux / Devreux, meaning d'Évreux ("from Évreux", a town in Normandy, France), the surname is found frequently in Ireland, Wales and England and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

Saint Devereux Church in Hereford, United Kingdom is also named Saint Dubricius and is dedicated to the 6th century clergyman Saint Dubricius from Hereford,{{cite web |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/10717/about-us/ |title=About Us |publisher=The Archibishops' Council |accessdate=2023-03-03 }}{{cite web |title=St Dubricius, Gwenddwr |url=https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/s626/churches/st-dubricius-gwenddwr/ |website=parish.churchinwales.org.uk/ |access-date=29 July 2021}} suggesting that the name is a Norman French rendering of Dubricius or the saint's Welsh name Dyfrig.{{cite DWB |last1=Emanuel |first1=Hywel David |title=DYFRIG (DUBRICIUS), saint (fl. 475?) |id=s-DYFR-SAN-0475 |access-date=29 July 2021}} In Ireland, the name is associated with Wexford, where the Cambro-Normans first invaded from Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1170. Anglo-Norman develops regularly a svarabakhti vowel /e/ between /v/ and /r/, such as in overi (French ouvrit "opened"), or livere (French livre "book").Jacques Allières, La formation de la langue française, coll. Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France, 1982, p. 121. Dubricius is called Dubrice in French and Dyfrig would have given *Difry / *Dufry in French and *Difery / *Dufery in Anglo-Norman, and St. Devereux is probably a mistranslation after the surname Devereux. The French variant is Devreux, which unlike Devereux'' is found within Normandy and France themselves.{{Cite web|url=http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=devreux|title=LA FRANCE DU NOM DE FAMILLE DES DEVREUX en France entre 1891 et 1915}}

The similar names Devereaux and Deveraux are alternate spellings of the surname resulting from the various ways of pronouncing it – the placename is pronounced "Dev-ruh" ({{IPA|fr|devʁø}}), and the surname may be pronounced "Dever-o", "Dever-oo", "Dever-ooks", "Dev-erah", "Dev-rah", "Dev-ruh", or (in and around Wexford) "Dev-rix".