Devontay

#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births

Peak · boys
1992 · 84 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
895
since 1988

Devontay over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Devontay has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201988peak #1,228, 1992boys
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#12,0085
2024#9,8947
2023#7,73810
2022#7,76810
2021#6,03214
2020#5,45116
2019#7,64310
2018#6,70312
2017#10,7756
2016#6,34913
2015#7,06611
2014#8,1309
2013#7,53710
2012#8,1589
2011#4,98318
2010#6,69812
2009#4,92219
2008#4,71420
2007#4,80819
2006#5,52515
2005#4,19821
2004#4,79317
2003#3,62624
2002#2,42841
2001#2,27744
2000#2,52537
1999#1,99548
1998#2,39436
1997#1,73056
1996#1,84249
1995#1,58858
1994#1,86845
1993#1,82446
1992#1,22884
1991#3,10520
1990#4,40712
1989#6,9416
1988#6,4266
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First appearance
1988

The first year at least five boys were named Devontay! It came in at #6,426, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

Where Devontay is popular in 1988

No state had 5 or more boys named Devontay in 1988, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Devontay
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,114 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #12,008)
  • 6,557 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #12,008)
  • 4,942 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1988
  • Peaked 1992 at #1,228 (84 births)
  • Births halved by 1998, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 23,779
  • Highest: 1 in 23,779 boys born in 1992 were named Devontay (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 50.7% of all boys named Devontay (454) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s12#6,426 (1988)#6,684
1990s454#1,228 (1992)#2,198
2000s257#2,277 (2001)#3,982
2010s110#4,983 (2011)#7,404
2020s62#5,451 (2020)#8,149

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.

Devontay in 1988

boys
#6,426
6 births · 1 in 319,047 boys

Top boys' names in 1988

  1. #1Michael64,171
  2. #2Christopher53,014
  3. #3Matthew45,876
  4. #4Joshua42,653
  5. #5Andrew35,745
  6. #6David35,329
  7. #7Justin35,055
  8. #8Daniel34,718
  9. #9James32,523
  10. #10Robert30,319
  11. #6,426Devontay6
More about 1988

boys

1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 319,047 of them was named Devontay, which outranked 24.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Devontay
  1. #5,751Zaine7
  2. #5,751Zander7
  3. #5,751Ziyad7
  4. #6,426Devontay6
  5. #6,426Abdon6
  6. #6,426Abdrew6
  7. #6,426Abed6
  8. #7,270Aadam5
  9. #7,270Aarin5
  10. #7,270Aarion5

Tied with 843 names at #6,426; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1987
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,252Nico#4,239 → #987
  2. ↑ 1,245Ridge#2,215 → #970
  3. ↑ 668Colten#1,484 → #816
  4. ↑ 600Brantley#1,587 → #987
  5. ↑ 518Long#1,337 → #819
Fallers
  1. ↓ 362Cordaro#908 → #1,270
  2. ↓ 246Ramsey#884 → #1,130
  3. ↓ 241Yaakov#974 → #1,215
  4. ↓ 233Adrain#990 → #1,223
  5. ↓ 230Kiel#846 → #1,076

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1988 →