Deven
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477
- #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
- Given to boys 89.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 491 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,670since 1954
Deven over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #2,595 | 51 |
| 2023 | — | #2,737 | 47 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,753 | 47 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,373 | 57 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,886 | 41 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,110 | 68 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | — | #1,735 | 89 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,655 | 96 | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #1,523 | 108 |
| 2014 | — | #1,264 | 141 | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #1,070 | 175 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #1,017 | 192 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #893 | 231 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #815 | 263 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #686 | 353 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #686 | 350 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #669 | 359 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #608 | 393 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #532 | 457 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #511 | 479 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #508 | 478 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | #510 | 447 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #494 | 465 |
| 2000 | #3,334 | 40 | #479 | 491 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 | #479 | 464 |
| 1998 | #4,142 | 27 | #491 | 444 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | #516 | 391 |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 | #540 | 355 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 | #542 | 351 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | #594 | 302 |
| 1993 | #2,451 | 51 | #609 | 290 |
| 1992 | #2,576 | 48 | #605 | 291 |
| 1991 | #1,913 | 73 | #686 | 217 |
| 1990 | #2,128 | 61 | #730 | 195 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #792 | 157 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #798 | 141 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #810 | 132 |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | #991 | 87 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 | #975 | 87 |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 | #917 | 92 |
| 1983 | #2,398 | 39 | #967 | 83 |
| 1982 | #3,017 | 29 | #1,622 | 37 |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 | #1,726 | 33 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | #1,357 | 48 |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #1,487 | 76 | #1,149 | 59 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | #1,476 | 39 |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #1,787 | 27 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #1,886 | 24 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | #1,736 | 26 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | — | #1,668 | 28 | |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | #2,125 | 18 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #1,810 | 21 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #1,574 | 25 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1964 | — | #2,040 | 16 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,539 | 11 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,423 | 12 | |
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| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1954
The first year at least five boys were named Deven! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Deven is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
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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 Deven
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 289 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #2,884)
- 2 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #2,884)
- 1,361 spots since 2015 (#1,523 → #2,884)
- Biggest jump: 655 spots in 1983
- Biggest drop: 129 spots in 2010
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2000 at #479 (491 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 29 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1983–2011
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,000
- Highest: 1 in 4,000 boys born in 2000 were named Deven (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 40.0% of all boys named Deven (4,272) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1981
- Mostly girls until 1980, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 25 | #2,764 (1955) | #3,530 |
| 1960s | 162 | #1,574 (1968) | #2,119 |
| 1970s | 300 | #1,149 (1978) | #1,765 |
| 1980s | 897 | #792 (1989) | #1,096 |
| 1990s | 3,300 | #479 (1999) | #579 |
| 2000s | 4,272 | #479 (2000) | #568 |
| 2010s | 1,428 | #815 (2010) | #1,423 |
| 2020s | 286 | #2,373 (2021) | #2,705 |
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.
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