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
- 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
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maine#150 · 1 in 710
- Massachusetts#225 · 1 in 1,835
- West Virginia#233 · 1 in 1,782
- Ohio#310 · 1 in 2,692
- Missouri#317 · 1 in 2,474
Best ever in a state: #126 in Alaska, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #150 | 8 | 1 in 710 |
| Massachusetts | #225 | 20 | 1 in 1,835 |
| West Virginia | #233 | 5 | 1 in 1,782 |
| Ohio | #310 | 26 | 1 in 2,692 |
| Missouri | #317 | 14 | 1 in 2,474 |
| Oklahoma | #330 | 10 | 1 in 2,066 |
| Indiana | #345 | 14 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Iowa | #349 | 6 | 1 in 2,721 |
| Kentucky | #350 | 7 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Oregon | #351 | 9 | 1 in 2,220 |
| Wisconsin | #357 | 10 | 1 in 2,898 |
| Tennessee | #361 | 13 | 1 in 2,772 |
| Nevada | #371 | 5 | 1 in 2,261 |
| Arizona | #397 | 13 | 1 in 2,680 |
| Minnesota | #416 | 7 | 1 in 4,072 |
| Virginia | #432 | 12 | 1 in 3,307 |
| Georgia | #442 | 17 | 1 in 3,034 |
| South Carolina | #481 | 6 | 1 in 3,422 |
| Mississippi | #504 | 5 | 1 in 3,068 |
| Washington | #510 | 8 | 1 in 4,306 |
| Colorado | #519 | 6 | 1 in 4,363 |
| Texas | #520 | 37 | 1 in 4,341 |
| Illinois | #527 | 18 | 1 in 4,463 |
| New York | #528 | 24 | 1 in 4,805 |
| Alabama | #529 | 6 | 1 in 4,204 |
| Michigan | #529 | 12 | 1 in 4,974 |
| Florida | #539 | 19 | 1 in 4,562 |
| Pennsylvania | #544 | 11 | 1 in 6,065 |
| California | #638 | 33 | 1 in 7,373 |
| New Jersey | #646 | 7 | 1 in 6,951 |
| North Carolina | #766 | 6 | 1 in 8,086 |
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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
- 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 (#1,622 → #967)
- Biggest drop: 129 spots in 2010 (#686 → #815)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2000 at #479 (491 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1983–2011
- 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%)
- 40.0% of all boys named Deven (4,272) were born in this decade
- 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.
Deven in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 65,443 of them was named Deven, which outranked 75.0% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,023Zenobia28
- #4,023Zia28
- #4,023Zykia28
- #4,142Deven27
- #4,142Aiesha27
- #4,142Aleeza27
- #4,142Alejandrina27
- #4,238Adora26
- #4,238Adriane26
- #4,238Alyissa26
Tied with 95 names at #4,142; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 4,305 of them was named Deven, which outranked 95.7% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.