Dev
#1,425 for boys in 2025, 126 births
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,146since 1969
Dev over time
Rank among boys' names. Dev has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,425 | 126 |
| 2024 | #1,397 | 134 |
| 2023 | #1,576 | 110 |
| 2022 | #1,589 | 111 |
| 2021 | #1,565 | 111 |
| 2020 | #1,634 | 98 |
| 2019 | #1,494 | 114 |
| 2018 | #1,478 | 117 |
| 2017 | #1,335 | 134 |
| 2016 | #1,433 | 121 |
| 2015 | #1,538 | 106 |
| 2014 | #1,447 | 113 |
| 2013 | #1,444 | 114 |
| 2012 | #1,398 | 119 |
| 2011 | #1,264 | 136 |
| 2010 | #1,447 | 114 |
| 2009 | #1,232 | 145 |
| 2008 | #1,516 | 107 |
| 2007 | #1,516 | 104 |
| 2006 | #1,413 | 111 |
| 2005 | #1,453 | 101 |
| 2004 | #1,280 | 117 |
| 2003 | #1,277 | 111 |
| 2002 | #1,744 | 66 |
| 2001 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 2000 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
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| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dev! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dev is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#500 · 1 in 2,662
- Pennsylvania#781 · 1 in 5,225
- Illinois#865 · 1 in 5,577
- New York#977 · 1 in 6,652
- North Carolina#1,047 · 1 in 7,307
Best ever in a state: #265 in New Jersey, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #500 | 15 | 1 in 2,662 |
| Pennsylvania | #781 | 10 | 1 in 5,225 |
| Illinois | #865 | 9 | 1 in 5,577 |
| New York | #977 | 13 | 1 in 6,652 |
| North Carolina | #1,047 | 7 | 1 in 7,307 |
| California | #1,067 | 19 | 1 in 9,487 |
| Texas | #1,439 | 13 | 1 in 13,753 |
| Florida | #1,627 | 6 | 1 in 15,940 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dev
- 28 spots since 2024 (#1,397 → #1,425)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#1,634 → #1,425)
- 113 spots since 2015 (#1,538 → #1,425)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2009 at #1,232 (145 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,857 boys born in 2024 were named Dev (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,556 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,232 in 2009, was only 1 in 13,680 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.8% of all boys named Dev (1,188) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 56 | #3,357 (1979) | #4,047 |
| 1980s | 85 | #3,270 (1984) | #4,411 |
| 1990s | 147 | #3,105 (1991) | #4,029 |
| 2000s | 975 | #1,232 (2009) | #1,539 |
| 2010s | 1,188 | #1,264 (2011) | #1,428 |
| 2020s | 690 | #1,397 (2024) | #1,531 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dev in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 12,857 of them was named Dev, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,387Ripley135
- #1,387Zack135
- #1,387Zakaria135
- #1,397Dev134
- #1,397Davian134
- #1,397Eziah134
- #1,397Juelz134
- #1,405Asiah133
- #1,405Davi133
- #1,405Giancarlo133
Tied with 7 names at #1,397; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.