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Devan vs Devantae

American parents have registered 18,800 Devans since 1880, against 168 Devantaes. Devan is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devan against Devantae, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devan Devantae

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Devan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Devan had 74 and Devantae had 7.

Side by side

  Devan Devantae
Total US births 18,800168
Most in one year 95819
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 18,000160
Median age today 2828
Peak year 19941994
Best rank 367th boys3,469th boys
Rank in 2025 2,516thunranked
First recorded 19241992
Girls / boys 5,161 / 13,6390 / 168

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Devan and Devantae.