Devan
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #8,443 · #2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
Given to boys 72.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 646 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,639since 1924
Devan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,516 | 53 | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #2,527 | 53 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #2,614 | 50 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #2,269 | 63 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,996 | 71 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #1,899 | 78 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #1,792 | 85 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #1,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | #1,356 | 131 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,416 | 121 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #1,213 | 151 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #1,192 | 150 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #983 | 203 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #953 | 208 |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 | #877 | 239 |
| 2009 | #2,966 | 58 | #780 | 291 |
| 2008 | #3,120 | 54 | #749 | 301 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 | #610 | 410 |
| 2006 | #2,287 | 83 | #586 | 418 |
| 2005 | #2,239 | 81 | #561 | 423 |
| 2004 | #2,155 | 83 | #502 | 487 |
| 2003 | #1,947 | 93 | #478 | 519 |
| 2002 | #2,081 | 82 | #514 | 441 |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 | #472 | 501 |
| 2000 | #1,533 | 118 | #496 | 460 |
| 1999 | #1,321 | 136 | #440 | 524 |
| 1998 | #1,167 | 161 | #409 | 592 |
| 1997 | #976 | 200 | #408 | 566 |
| 1996 | #807 | 254 | #421 | 533 |
| 1995 | #709 | 295 | #390 | 599 |
| 1994 | #711 | 293 | #367 | 646 |
| 1993 | #694 | 312 | #407 | 568 |
| 1992 | #628 | 360 | #396 | 579 |
| 1991 | #520 | 449 | #440 | 509 |
| 1990 | #669 | 321 | #492 | 387 |
| 1989 | #1,032 | 166 | #506 | 357 |
| 1988 | #1,217 | 123 | #570 | 263 |
| 1987 | #1,318 | 104 | #644 | 202 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 | #667 | 181 |
| 1985 | #1,632 | 72 | #710 | 155 |
| 1984 | #1,565 | 72 | #840 | 109 |
| 1983 | #1,373 | 87 | #827 | 111 |
| 1982 | #1,653 | 69 | #1,254 | 55 |
| 1981 | #1,714 | 66 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #1,380 | 90 | #1,410 | 45 |
| 1979 | #1,338 | 92 | #1,340 | 48 |
| 1978 | #1,053 | 128 | #1,066 | 66 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | #1,221 | 52 |
| 1976 | — | #1,781 | 28 | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #2,001 | 23 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #1,692 | 28 |
| 1973 | — | #1,696 | 27 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #1,637 | 29 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #2,058 | 19 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #1,788 | 20 |
| 1967 | — | #2,030 | 15 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,669 | 22 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,655 | 23 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,423 | 12 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,530 | 11 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,558 | 10 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Devan! It came in at #3,867, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1946, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Devan is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#225 · 1 in 1,901
- New York#982 · 1 in 18,503
Best ever in a state: #122 in Maine, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #225 | 10 | 1 in 1,901 |
| New York | #982 | 6 | 1 in 18,503 |
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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 Devan
- 11 spots since 2024 (#2,527 → #2,516)
- 520 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #2,516)
- 1,100 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #2,516)
- Biggest jump: 427 spots in 1983 (#1,254 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 209 spots in 2013 (#983 → #1,192)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1994 at #367 (646 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1983–2012
- Highest: 1 in 2,991 boys born in 1994 were named Devan (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.3% of all boys named Devan (5,503) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1982, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #3,867 (1924) | #3,867 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 12 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,334 |
| 1950s | 62 | #2,530 (1959) | #2,860 |
| 1960s | 143 | #1,655 (1964) | #2,400 |
| 1970s | 335 | #1,066 (1978) | #1,691 |
| 1980s | 1,517 | #506 (1989) | #898 |
| 1990s | 5,503 | #367 (1994) | #417 |
| 2000s | 4,251 | #472 (2001) | #575 |
| 2010s | 1,462 | #877 (2010) | #1,333 |
| 2020s | 348 | #1,996 (2020) | #2,379 |
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.
Devan in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 17,449 of them was named Devan, which outranked 88.8% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,332Shalanda93
- #1,332Shane93
- #1,332Tiara93
- #1,338Devan92
- #1,338Ebonie92
- #1,338Eryn92
- #1,338Evette92
- #1,349Amalia91
- #1,349Asha91
- #1,349Daria91
Tied with 10 names at #1,338; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 35,865 of them was named Devan, which outranked 81.0% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,319Raymon49
- #1,319Skye49
- #1,319Yusuf49
- #1,340Devan48
- #1,340Crystal48
- #1,340Dain48
- #1,340Domonic48
- #1,352Anibal47
- #1,352Augustus47
- #1,352Courtland47
Tied with 11 names at #1,340; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.