Devlin
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 131 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,247since 1957
Devlin 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 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | — | #4,850 | 20 | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,748 | 44 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | — | #2,689 | 45 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #2,139 | 62 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | — | #1,835 | 77 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,697 | 90 |
| 2009 | — | #1,443 | 116 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,504 | 108 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #1,255 | 140 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,294 | 128 |
| 2005 | — | #1,289 | 119 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,179 | 132 |
| 2003 | — | #1,149 | 131 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,305 | 102 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,357 | 94 |
| 2000 | — | #1,271 | 102 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,383 | 85 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #1,271 | 95 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,284 | 89 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,421 | 73 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #1,405 | 71 |
| 1994 | — | #1,753 | 50 | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,780 | 44 |
| 1989 | — | #1,678 | 46 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | — | #2,226 | 24 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,656 | 35 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,275 | 52 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,478 | 36 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,370 | 39 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | — | #1,364 | 38 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,415 | 36 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #1,615 | 28 |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,574 | 25 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,757 | 19 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,850 | 19 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Devlin! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Devlin is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Pennsylvania#728 · 1 in 6,212
- Colorado#743 · 1 in 5,749
- Indiana#769 · 1 in 6,231
- Washington#803 · 1 in 6,160
- North Carolina#1,115 · 1 in 10,767
Best ever in a state: #486 in Massachusetts, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | #728 | 10 | 1 in 6,212 |
| Colorado | #743 | 5 | 1 in 5,749 |
| Indiana | #769 | 6 | 1 in 6,231 |
| Washington | #803 | 6 | 1 in 6,160 |
| North Carolina | #1,115 | 5 | 1 in 10,767 |
| Illinois | #1,382 | 5 | 1 in 14,510 |
| Florida | #1,453 | 6 | 1 in 15,883 |
| California | #1,848 | 8 | 1 in 30,268 |
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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 Devlin
- 23 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #6,446)
- 2,305 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #6,446)
- 4,193 spots since 2015 (#2,253 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2003 at #1,149 (131 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,824 boys born in 2007 were named Devlin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,149 in 2003, was only 1 in 15,079 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.1% of all boys named Devlin (1,172) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 125 | #1,574 (1968) | #2,422 |
| 1970s | 271 | #1,364 (1972) | #1,905 |
| 1980s | 300 | #1,275 (1983) | #2,099 |
| 1990s | 670 | #1,271 (1998) | #1,520 |
| 2000s | 1,172 | #1,149 (2003) | #1,305 |
| 2010s | 585 | #1,697 (2010) | #2,484 |
| 2020s | 119 | #3,912 (2021) | #5,071 |
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.
Devlin in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 17,100 of them was named Devlin, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,433Javien117
- #1,433Obed117
- #1,433Talen117
- #1,443Devlin116
- #1,443Amani116
- #1,443Deion116
- #1,443Foster116
- #1,453Amauri115
- #1,453Shia115
- #1,453Tariq115
Tied with 9 names at #1,443; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.