Devontay
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 84 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 895since 1988
Devontay over time
Rank among boys' names. Devontay has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #2,277 | 44 |
| 2000 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #1,730 | 56 |
| 1996 | #1,842 | 49 |
| 1995 | #1,588 | 58 |
| 1994 | #1,868 | 45 |
| 1993 | #1,824 | 46 |
| 1992 | #1,228 | 84 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
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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 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#444 · 1 in 3,277
- Michigan#602 · 1 in 7,319
- Florida#707 · 1 in 8,752
- Illinois#738 · 1 in 9,580
- Pennsylvania#819 · 1 in 15,575
Best ever in a state: #444 in Mississippi, 1992.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #444 | 5 | 1 in 3,277 |
| Michigan | #602 | 9 | 1 in 7,319 |
| Florida | #707 | 10 | 1 in 8,752 |
| Illinois | #738 | 9 | 1 in 9,580 |
| Pennsylvania | #819 | 5 | 1 in 15,575 |
| Texas | #1,202 | 7 | 1 in 21,894 |
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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 Devontay
- 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)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 1992 at #1,228 (84 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 50.7% of all boys named Devontay (454) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,684 |
| 1990s | 454 | #1,228 (1992) | #2,198 |
| 2000s | 257 | #2,277 (2001) | #3,982 |
| 2010s | 110 | #4,983 (2011) | #7,404 |
| 2020s | 62 | #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 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 23,779 of them was named Devontay, which outranked 87.5% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,221Jed85
- #1,221Martell85
- #1,221Michel85
- #1,228Devontay84
- #1,228Delonte84
- #1,228Deshon84
- #1,228Layton84
- #1,237Corwin83
- #1,237Dajuan83
- #1,237Dustyn83
Tied with 8 names at #1,228; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.