Devante

Where Devante comes from

Devante hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1987
    First appearance
    #6,951 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Devante Smith-Pelly born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  3. 1992
    Peak, #199
    1,565 babies named Devante — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1995
    Devante Cole born
    English professional footballer
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #337.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Devante Smith-Pelly · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1992
  • Devante Cole · English professional footballer, born 1995
  • Devante Parker · German footballer, born 1996
  • Devante Clut · Australian footballer, born 1995
  • Devante Jacobs · Footballer, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.